CVE-2023-44271
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: November 3, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:27 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraPillow
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 10.0.0. It is a Denial of Service that uncontrollably allocates memory to process a given task, potentially causing a service to crash by having it run out of memory. This occurs for truetype in ImageFont when textlength in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
95%
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
Third Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2023-44271/Vendor AdvisoryMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2JOEDUJDQLCUII2LQYZYSM7RJL2I3P4/CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-770
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