Security advisory

{
  "id": "7b84776e318929974a3e930c83a50128e396ab0a17508235bac166829a31710b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-22817",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-22817",
    "summary": "PIL.ImageMath.eval in Pillow before 9.0.0 allows evaluation of arbitrary expressions, such as ones that use the Python exec method. A lambda expression could also be used.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-22817",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-22817",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-pillow-2022-22817",
        "CVE-2022-22817",
        "GHSA-8vj2-vxx3-667w",
        "PYSEC-2022-10"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "6deac9e3a23caffbfdd75c00d3f0a1cd36cdbd5d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                        "fixed": "9.0.1"
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
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          "versions": [
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            "8.4.0",
            "8.3.0",
            "8.2.0",
            "8.1.0",
            "8.0.0",
            "7.2.0",
            "7.1.0",
            "7.0.0",
            "6.2.0",
            "6.1.0",
            "6.0.0",
            "5.4.0",
            "5.3.0",
            "5.2.0",
            "5.1.0",
            "5.0.0",
            "4.3.0",
            "4.2.0",
            "4.1.0",
            "4.0.0",
            "4.0.0a",
            "3.4.0",
            "3.3.0",
            "3.2.0",
            "3.1.0",
            "3.1.0-rc1",
            "2.9.0",
            "2.9.0.dev2",
            "2.9.0.dev1",
            "2.9.0.dev0",
            "2.8.1",
            "2.8.0",
            "2.7.0",
            "2.5.0",
            "2.3.0",
            "2.2.1",
            "2.2.0",
            "2.1.0",
            "2.0.0",
            "1.7.8",
            "1.7.7",
            "1.2",
            "1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-22817.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.015270461Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/9.0.0.html#restrict-builtins-available-to-imagemath-eval",
        "https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/9.0.1.html#security",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/22xxx/CVE-2022-22817.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22817",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-10",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5053",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00018.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00021.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/22xxx/CVE-2022-22817.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-22817",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 504419,
  "published_at": "2022-01-07T00:00:00+00:00"
}