# CVE-2026-112395: Pillow tiled-TIFF decoder reads past tile buffer in copy4 (Unpack.c:1290)

- Also known as: GHSA-462X-PGG6-55FP, BIT-PILLOW-2026-112395
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 13.0.0
- Published: 2026-10-19 · Updated: 2026-10-28

## Affected

- python-pillow Pillow: from 8.2.0, fixed in 13.0.0
- pillow (PyPI): from 8.2.0, fixed in 13.0.0
- pillow (Bitnami): from 8.2.0, fixed in 13.0.0

## Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 8.2.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow's tiled-TIFF decoder can read past the tile buffer while copying four-byte pixels. In _decodeTile, libtiff can return a tile allocation smaller than the required row stride multiplied by the tile length, and Pillow's stride-and-copy loop walks beyond that allocation. An attacker can supply a crafted tiled TIFF to an application that loads it. This can expose adjacent heap data in pixels or crash the process. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-462x-pgg6-55fp
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/76869efdbbf2ad7dccd7536520fb61b7a00ab61e
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0

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