PT-2026-120818 · Python Pillow · Pillow

CVE-2026-96638

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Published

2026-10-21

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Updated

2026-10-21

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.1.0 until 13.0.0, BmpRleDecoder.decode() in src/PIL/BmpImagePlugin.py permits crafted RLE BMP delta escapes and absolute-mode runs to append beyond the remaining dest length without a per-branch cap. A delta can add roughly 255 image rows in one iteration, so a kilobyte-sized file with a large but permitted width can expand the data bytearray to hundreds of megabytes or more, causing memory-exhaustion denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Fix

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Resource Exhaustion

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-96638

Affected Products

Pillow