CVE-2021-28678

mediumpriority · track · 22OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.007 · 54 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.73% (54th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-345USprimaryCWE-345US

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
Open Source Python Pillowall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:python:python:pillow
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SUSE openSUSEall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:opensuse:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
fedoraproject fedora= 33nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python pillow< 8.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:pillow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami pillow< 8.2.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/pillow
PyPI pillow< 8.2.0osvUSpkg:pypi/pillow
PyPI pillow5.1.0 → 8.2.0osvUSpkg:pypi/pillow

advisories (4)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-1835Red Hat Enterprise Linux (python-pillow): Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2021-11-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux in python-pillow ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen und vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen.
GHSA-hjfx-8p6c-g7gxInsufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Pillow2021-06-08ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.
BIT-pillow-2021-286782024-03-06vendor · osvUS
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.
PYSEC-2021-942021-06-02vendor · osvUS
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.

also known as (7)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-06-02modified 2026-06-17

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references (19)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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