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CVE-2022-45199

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-45199 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Pillow versions prior to 9.3.0, triggered by manipulating the SAMPLESPERPIXEL value. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating a remotely exploitable flaw with low attack complexity that can lead to a complete denial of service without requiring user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:python:pillow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0110 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: pillowFixed in: 9.3.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-q4mp-jvh2-76fjhigh

Pillow subject to DoS via SAMPLESPERPIXEL tag

Nov 14, 2022

References

bugs.gentoo.org / 878769
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / python-pillow/Pillow/commit/2444cddab2f83f28687c7c20871574acbb6dbcf3
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / python-pillow/Pillow/pull/6700
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/9.3.0
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202211-10
Third Party Advisory