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CVE-2026-96639GHSA-V9PV-5GC8-W2M6PYSEC-2026-4339BIT-PILLOW-2026-96639

Pillow multi-frame loaders can reuse stale native image storage after mode transitions

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

Summary

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 11.0.0 until 13.0.0, multi-frame loaders can retain an ImagingCore allocation created for a narrow frame mode while a later frame of the same dimensions changes the logical mode and decoder tiles to wider RGB or CMYK data. ImageFile.load_prepare() reuses the stale native storage because _im is non-null without verifying that its mode and size still match. Crafted PSD, MPO, DCX, or MIC frame transitions can then write wider pixels into the narrow allocation, causing native out-of-bounds writes and crashes. The MPO path can also cause a native over-read and, in demonstrated runtime-specific profiles, command execution. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • python-pillow Pillow

    From 11.0.0 · fixed in 13.0.0

  • pillowPyPI

    From 11.0.0 · fixed in 13.0.0

References 4

GitHub · python-pillow/Pillow