CVE-2022-45199 — Pillow before 9

Pillow before 9.3.0 allows denial of service via SAMPLESPERPIXEL.

01What is this vulnerability?

Pillow before 9.3.0 allows denial of service via SAMPLESPERPIXEL.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T14:09:56.981Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/2444cddab2f83f28687c7c20871574acb…
• github.com — https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/6700
• bugs.gentoo.org — https://bugs.gentoo.org/878769
• github.com — https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/9.3.0
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-10