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CVE-2026-112897

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Pillow is a Python imaging library.

Vendor / product: Python — pillow

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.

CVSS
6.2
6.2 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-19 22:17
Modified: 2026-10-27 14:55
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 17 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 11:30 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 ≥5.3.0 <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

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-q45j-58j2-45rg
Vendor advisory: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-q45j-58j2-45rg
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/1d4773e6cea0c4a2814e6d4cdc099bbcf56da6ce
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-q45j-58j2-45rg
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-q45j-58j2-45rg

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 11:30 UTC · record ↗

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