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CVE-2014-9601

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9601 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Pillow versions prior to 2.7.0, affecting products like fedoraproject, opensuse, oracle, and python. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by providing a PNG image with a compressed text chunk that, when decompressed, consumes excessive resources. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:python:pillow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0454 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: pillowFixed in: 2.7.0
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: python-imaging
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: python-imaging
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: python-pillow

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-h5rf-vgqx-wjv2high

Pillow denial of service via PNG bomb

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-9601Low

python-pillow: potential denial-of-service during PNG decompression

Dec 31, 2014

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148442.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00056.html
Third Party Advisory
pillow.readthedocs.org / releasenotes/2.7.0.html
Vendor Advisory
github.com / python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060
Vendor Advisory
djangoproject.com / weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/77758