Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-112393

python-pillow Pillow

Pillow: Heap buffer overflow in _tiffWriteProc when saving TIFF to BytesIO

CVSS 4.0
9.2Critical

Official description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 2.0.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow has a heap buffer overflow and stale-heap disclosure in _tiffWriteProc when saving compressed TIFF data through libtiff to a target without a usable fileno(), such as BytesIO. The callback sizes its allocation from the prior buffer size instead of the current write position, allowing an attacker-controlled out-of-line TIFF tag or retained ICC profile to be copied beyond the allocation after libtiff seeks forward. This overflow can crash the process and may allow code execution. Independently, unwritten alignment gaps in compressed TIFF output larger than 64 KiB can disclose stale heap bytes without a crafted tag. File paths and targets with real file descriptors are unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.2Critical 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (GitHub_M) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
python-pillow Pillow >= 2.0.0, < 13.0.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-10-20
Last updated
2026-10-20
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
GitHub_M
Kolun priority
30 · Low

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.01%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
63.5%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
Proof of concept
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-122
    Heap-based Buffer Overflow