CVE•Published 2026-10-19•Modified 2026-10-27•0 articles on news•3 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-112897Python · Pillow

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CVSS v3.1
6.2
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS percentile
21
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 79% of all CVEs
Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.3.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can return uninitialized memory as pixels when libtiff performs a short decode of JPEG-compressed or Group 4 fax TIFF data. The _decodeStrip and _decodeTile buffers can be larger than the bytes written by libtiff, but Pillow converts the expected rows without clearing the unwritten tail. The tile path is affected from 5.3.0 and the strip path from 6.0.0. An attacker can supply a crafted TIFF to an application that loads and returns or re-encodes its pixels. This can disclose stale heap contents without memory corruption or a process crash. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Timeline
Published 2026-10-19
Modified 2026-10-27

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