PT-2021-16502 · Pillow+8 · Pillow+8

Published 2021-05-10 · Updated 2026-03-31 · CVE-2021-25288

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.1

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Pillow versions prior to 8.2.0

Description: An issue was discovered in Pillow. There is an out-of-bounds read in J2kDecode, in j2ku gray i. This issue dates back to Pillow 2.4.0.

Recommendations: For Pillow versions prior to 8.2.0, update to version 8.2.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the J2kDecode function in j2ku gray i until a patch is available.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2021:4149

ALT-PU-2021-2460

ALT-PU-2023-7942

ALT-PU-2023-8182

BIT-PILLOW-2021-25288

CESA-2021_4149

CVE-2021-25288

GHSA-RWV7-3V45-HG29

MGASA-2021-0389

OPENSUSE-SU-2024_1607-1

PYSEC-2021-138

RHSA-2021:4149

RHSA-2021_4149

RLSA-2021:4149

SUSE-SU-2021:1938-1

SUSE-SU-2021:1939-1

SUSE-SU-2021:1940-1

SUSE-SU-2024:1607-1

USN-4963-1

USN-8135-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Almalinux

Centos

Linuxmint

Pillow

Red Hat

Rocky Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 111

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-50447 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2021:1938-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-25288 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28676 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-25287 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2024:1607-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0389.html · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MQHA5HAIBOYI3R6HDWCLAGFTIQP767FL · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2021-0389 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-25288 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:4149 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/MQHA5HAIBOYI3R6HDWCLAGFTIQP767FL · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rwv7-3v45-hg29 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-25290 · Vendor Advisory