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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-45199 json

Pillow subject to DoS via SAMPLESPERPIXEL tag

published 2022-11-14 3 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-pillow-2022-45199 , EUVD-2022-0198 , GHSA-q4mp-jvh2-76fj , PYSEC-2022-42980

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Pillow before 9.3.0 allows denial of service via SAMPLESPERPIXEL.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pillow 9.3.0
  • bitnami pillow 9.3.0
  • python pillow 9.3.0
  • pillow Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 9.3.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-45199

Exploit prediction

1.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pillow
>=9.2.0, <9.3.0
9.3.0
bitnami pillow
<9.3.0
9.3.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.