Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Vulnerability in Pillow PDF Parser

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Vulnerability in Pillow PDF Parser

CVE-2021-25292 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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