Out-of-bounds Write Affecting pillow package, versions [10.3.0,12.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-16419303
  • published5 May 2026
  • disclosed4 May 2026
  • creditEthan Kim

Introduced: 4 May 2026

CVE-2026-42311  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (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 Out-of-bounds Write in the _setimage() functions in encode.c and decode.c, which are exploitable via Image.open(). An attacker can execute arbitrary code by supplying a malicious PSD image file with tile dimensions that trigger integer overflows.

Note: This is a bypass for the vulnerability described in CVE-2026-25990.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1