Is CVE-2014-9601 being actively exploited?

CVE-2014-9601 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2014-9601?

CVE-2014-9601 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2014-9601

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 4.6%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score: 5.0 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20
EPSS score: 4.6% (92th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2015-0031)
Published: January 16, 2015
NVD last modified: June 17, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2015-0031 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

fedoraproject / fedora
opensuse / opensuse
oracle / solaris
python / pillow

References

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

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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