NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting pillow package, versions [12.0.0, 12.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.29% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-21277781
  • published20 Oct 2026
  • disclosed19 Oct 2026
  • creditJoshua Rogers

Introduced: 19 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-112405  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 NULL Pointer Dereference via the ImagingMerge function in src/libImaging/Bands.c when merging image32 (4-bytes-per-pixel, single-band) images. The function fails to reject bands whose pixelsize is 4, allowing an attacker to trigger a crash by supplying such images to a merge operation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1