Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pillow package, versions [10.3.0,12.2.0)
Threat Intelligence
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- published14 Apr 2026
- disclosed13 Apr 2026
- creditsammiee5311
Introduced: 13 Apr 2026
CVE-2026-40192 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade pillow to version 12.2.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via decompression bomb, in FitsGzipDecoder(). An attacker can cause an OOM and crash the application or severely degrade its performance by supplying a malicious FITS file containing excessive GZIP-compressed data.