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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2014-3589 json

Pillow denial of service via Crafted Block Size

published 2014-08-25 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-cfmr-38g9-f2h7 , PYSEC-2014-10 , EUVD-2014-0040

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

PIL/IcnsImagePlugin.py in Python Imaging Library (PIL) and Pillow before 2.3.2 and 2.5.x before 2.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted block size.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pillow 2.3.2, 2.5.2
  • pillow Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3589

  • pillow Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3589

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ceph Enterprise Storage 1.0 0.80.9-5.1
  • ceph-deploy Enterprise Storage 1.0 1.5.19+git.1431355031.6178cf3-9.1
  • python-Pillow Enterprise Storage 1.0 2.7.0-4.1
  • calamari-clients Enterprise Storage 1.0 1.2.2+git.1428648634.40dfe5b-3.1
  • python-djangorestframework Enterprise Storage 1.0 2.3.12-4.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1102-1

  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 12.3.0-1.1
  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.4.2-1.1
  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.1.1-4.1
  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.3.2-1.2
  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.3.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11261-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10511-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10567-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11209-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13827-1

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-2014-3589 updated cvss 4.3

python-imaging: DoS in IcnsImagePlugin

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 python-imaging Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 python-imaging, python-imaging-tk, python-imaging-sane Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 python-pillow, python-pillow-qt, python-pillow-tk, python-pillow-sane
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

3.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 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
<2.3.2
>=2.5, <2.5.2
2.3.2
2.5.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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