# GHSA-JGPV-4H4C-XHW3: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in pillow

- Severity: medium (stated by ghsa, no CVSS score)
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.1.2
- Published: 2021-04-23 · Updated: 2024-12-02

## Summary

Pillow, the Python imaging library, is affected by this vulnerability. An attacker can supply a specially crafted image file, such as a BLP image, that causes the library to allocate excessive memory or take an extremely long time to process, resulting in a denial of service.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- pillow (PyPI): fixed in 8.1.2

## Description

### Impact _Pillow before 8.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for a BLP container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large._ ### Patches _An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image._ ### Workarounds _An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image._ ### References https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27921 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [example link to repo](http://example.com) * Email us at [example email address](mailto:example@example.com)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pillow, upgrade to a fixed version (8.1.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/calix2/pyVulApp/security/advisories/GHSA-jgpv-4h4c-xhw3

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