CVE-2021-25292

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    CVE-2021-25292

    Published: 19 Mar 2021Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. The PDF parser allows a regular expression DoS (ReDoS) attack via a crafted PDF file because of a catastrophic backtracking regex.

    References: https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.1.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -741d8744a54bedbc49f16922c61a06fcb3681f53

    Affected versions

    8.1.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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