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CVE-2014-3007 — pillow

CRITICAL

CVE-2014-3007 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) OS Command Injection vulnerability in pillow. EPSS puts its 30-day exploitation probability at 10.4% (96th percentile). A fix is available for pillow — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Pillow command injection

Also known asGHSA-8m9x-pxwq-j236PYSEC-2014-87
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 31, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
10.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Moderate Risk-1.24%
Lower risk than most CVEs96th percentile — riskier than 96% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.32%5.10%9.87%14.6%3.0%10.4%May 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🐍pillow

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Description

Python Image Library (PIL) 1.1.7 and earlier and Pillow before 2.5.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in unspecified vectors related to CVE-2014-1932, possibly JpegImagePlugin.py.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐍PyPIpillowall versions2.5.0pip install --upgrade 'pillow==2.5.0'

Affected Products

2 products · 2 configurations
Application
pillowpython
1 version
2.3.0
Application
python imaging librarypythonware
≤ 1.1.7
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for pillow, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update pillow to 2.5.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2014-3007 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does.

Frequently Asked Questions

Python Image Library (PIL) 1.1.7 and earlier and Pillow before 2.5.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in unspecified vectors related to CVE-2014-1932, possibly JpegImagePlugin.py.
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CVE-2014-3007: pillow — Fixed in 2.5.0