Advisory record · GHSA-654x-cwwv-5j9c

Pillow: Arrow export leaks stale heap memory when PILLOW_ALIGNMENT > 1

CVSS 6.3 MediumEPSS 0.0037 · 31st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 23 Oct 2026, 21:53 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
pillowPyPI>=11.2.1, <13.0.013.0.0
Identifiers
GHSA-654x-cwwv-5j9c · BIT-pillow-2026-114501 · CVE-2026-114501 · PYSEC-2026-4336
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-226 · CWE-908
Published
23 Oct 2026
Updated
29 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Pillow versions from 11.2.1 up to but not including 13.0.0 are affected when the PILLOW_ALIGNMENT setting is above 1 and images are exported to Arrow. The export includes uninitialized heap memory, which can contain pixel data from previously freed images. An attacker needs only the ability to get the application to export images to Arrow, and the source says a leak can expose another user's image data in a multi-user service. Upgrade to Pillow 13.0.0 or later.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.3 Medium 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0037, the 31st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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