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ALPINE-CVE-2021-25292

ALPINE-CVE-2021-25292 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.14py3-pillow8.1.0-r0, 0, 7.1.2-r0
Alpine:v3.15py3-pillow0, 7.1.1-r0, 7.1.2-r0

Timeline

  • Mar 19, 2021 CVE Published
  • Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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