CVE-2014-3007 Pillow command injection

What is CVE-2014-3007?

CVE-2014-3007 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Python Pillow, published on 27 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Python Image Library (PIL) 1.1.7 and earlier and Pillow 2.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in unspecified vectors related to CVE-2014-1932, possibly JpegImagePlugin.py.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3007?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including pillow. It affects 2 products.

Products include Python Pillow, Pythonware Python Imaging Library.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3007?

Upgrade pillow to 2.5.0 or later.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2014-3007 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3007 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3007, GHSA-8m9x-pxwq-j236, MGASA-2014-0476, PYSEC-2014-87, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3007.