Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value Affecting pillow package, versions [8.2.0,12.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PILLOW-17972382
  • published14 Jul 2026
  • disclosed14 Jul 2026
  • creditBrubbish

Introduced: 14 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-59204  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (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 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in the Jpeg2KDecode.c process. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption and potentially crash the application by submitting a specially crafted tiled JPEG2000 image file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1