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CVE-2026-112405GHSA-CP9V-662Q-VVX9BIT-PILLOW-2026-112405PYSEC-2026-4333

Pillow: NULL pointer dereference in Image.merge via an unvalidated band 0

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 13.0.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 12.0.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow's Image.merge() can dereference a null image8 plane. Validation skips the first input band, allowing a 32-bit integer or floating-point image backed by image32 storage to be merged as a narrower multiband image. A crafted IPTC file can reach this path when an application opens and loads it, or a caller can invoke Image.merge() directly with such a first band. This causes a native process crash. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • python-pillow Pillow

    From 12.0.0 · fixed in 13.0.0

  • pillowPyPI

    From 12.0.0 · fixed in 13.0.0

  • pillowBitnami

    From 12.0.0 · fixed in 13.0.0

References 3

GitHub · python-pillow/Pillow