CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-28677

Published: Jun 02, 2021 | Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For EPS data, the readline implementation used in EPSImageFile has to deal with any combination of r and n as line endings. It used an accidentally quadratic method of accumulating lines while looking for a line ending. A malicious EPS file could use this to perform a DoS of Pillow in the open phase, before an image was accepted for opening.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PillowPython*8.2.0 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatpython-pillow-0:5.1.1-16.el8*
PillowUbuntubionic*
PillowUbuntudevel*
PillowUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
PillowUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/xenial*
PillowUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
PillowUbuntuesm-infra/focal*
PillowUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
PillowUbuntufocal*
PillowUbuntugroovy*
PillowUbuntuhirsute*
PillowUbuntuimpish*
PillowUbuntujammy*
PillowUbuntukinetic*
PillowUbuntulunar*
PillowUbuntumantic*
PillowUbuntunoble*
PillowUbuntuoracular*
PillowUbuntuplucky*
PillowUbuntuquesting*
PillowUbunturesolute*
PillowUbuntustonking*
PillowUbuntutrusty*
PillowUbuntutrusty/esm*
PillowUbuntuupstream*
PillowUbuntuxenial*
Pillow-python2Ubuntufocal*
Pillow-python2Ubuntugroovy*
Python-imagingUbuntuprecise/esm*

References