CVE-2026-112396
highPillow is a Python imaging library.
Vendor / product: Python — pillow
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 11.3.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow has a heap use-after-free when libtiff rejects a tag while encoding TIFF data to an in-memory buffer. When an application saves attacker-influenced TIFF tags to BytesIO, libtiff can reject a tag during encoding in ImagingLibTiffEncode; the error path then frees the output buffer without closing or clearing the TIFF handle, and later cleanup flushes through the write callback into freed memory, which can crash the process and may enable code execution. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-19 22:17
Modified: 2026-10-26 21:00
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 07:04 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
python / pillow ≥11.3.0 <13.0.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
References
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/dc95da20207827a062cfbf551ee9f6031465a8bb security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-4rr5-89j8-mwwm security-advisories@github.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 07:04 UTC · record ↗