Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-9601

Title: Python Pillow Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-9601.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Jan 16, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.43%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-9601: Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed.

Impacted Vendors

python 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-9601 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 16, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.