CVE-2022-45199 Pillow subject to DoS via SAMPLESPERPIXEL tag

What is CVE-2022-45199?

CVE-2022-45199 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Python Pillow, published on 14 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Pillow before 9.3.0 allows denial of service via SAMPLESPERPIXEL.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-45199?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including pillow. It affects 1 product.

Products include Python Pillow.

How do I fix CVE-2022-45199?

Upgrade pillow to 9.3.0 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-45199 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-45199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Python Pillow

• CVE-2014-3007 Pillow command injection Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-96639 Pillow multi-frame loaders can reuse stale native image storage after mode transitions Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-30595 Buffer over-flow in Pillow Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25289 Out of bounds write in Pillow Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-4009 Pillow Integer overflow in ImagingResampleHorizontal Critical 9.8

All Python Pillow vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-pillow-2022-45199, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-45199, GHSA-q4mp-jvh2-76fj, OESA-2022-2113, OESA-2023-1024, PYSEC-2022-42980.