Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pillow package, versions [5.1.0,12.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-17972384
  • published14 Jul 2026
  • disclosed14 Jul 2026
  • creditredyank

Introduced: 14 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-59200  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pillow to version 12.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the decode function of PdfStream in PdfParser, where zlib decompression is performed without limiting the output size. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by submitting a specially crafted PDF file with a maliciously large Length field.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1