# CVE-2026-112893: Pillow: Invalid free in FreeType glyph rendering when a stroker is active

- Also known as: GHSA-J4M9-6W36-PW47, BIT-PILLOW-2026-112893
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- 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 10.0.0, fixed in 13.0.0
- pillow (PyPI): from 10.0.0, fixed in 13.0.0
- pillow (Bitnami): from 10.0.0, fixed in 13.0.0

## Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 10.0.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can free an invalid glyph pointer during FreeType rendering with an active stroker. If FT_Load_Glyph fails, cleanup may call FT_Done_Glyph on an uninitialized or stale glyph variable. An attacker can supply a malformed font as untrusted bytes to an application that draws text with a nonzero stroke width, forcing the glyph-load failure path. This can corrupt memory or crash the process. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on python-pillow Pillow, pillow, upgrade to a fixed version (13.0.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-j4m9-6w36-pw47
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/a7416de7f3a43128179d2cf68df3240ea8dafe13
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0

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