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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2022-30595 json

Buffer over-flow in Pillow

published 2022-05-25 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-pillow-2022-30595 , EUVD-2022-0201 , GHSA-hr8g-f6r6-mr22 , PYSEC-2022-43145

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libImaging/TgaRleDecode.c in Pillow 9.1.0 has a heap buffer overflow in the processing of invalid TGA image files.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pillow 9.1.1
  • bitnami pillow 9.1.1
  • pillow Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 9.1.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-30595

  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 11.1.0-1.1
  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.1.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14645-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12111-1

  • py3-pillow Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 9.1.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-30595

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-30595 updated cvss 6.2

python-pillow: heap buffer overflow in crafted TGA file

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 python-pillow, python-pillow-qt, python-pillow-tk, python-pillow-sane Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 python-pillow, python3-pillow, python3-pillow-tk
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/main/src/libImaging/TgaRleDecode.c referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
OSV 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pillow
>=9.1.0, <9.1.1
9.1.1
bitnami pillow
>=9.1.0, <9.1.1
9.1.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

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