# Pillow: Quadratic GIF comment copying during save

Advisory record · `GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45` · `BIT-pillow-2026-112891` · `CVE-2026-112891`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 6.9 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-407](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/407.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Published:** 21 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 26 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 21 Oct 2026, 20:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `pillow` (PyPI): affected `>=9.2.0, <13.0.0`; fixed in `13.0.0`

## Machine-written summary

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

> Pillow versions from 9.2.0 before 13.0.0 are affected: when saving a GIF that has a long comment, the code repeatedly copies parts of the comment, including comments carried over from untrusted images. An attacker who can supply an image that a service then saves as a GIF could cause a denial of service through high CPU use, with impact depending on input size, concurrency, and worker CPU limits. Upgrade to Pillow 13.0.0 or later, which is listed as the fixed version.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 6.9 Medium, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0055, the 46th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 17 Oct 2026, 10:41 UTC: [Published by the maintainers as a GitHub repository advisory](https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45)
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45)
- [OSV: GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45)
- <https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-fc9g-5qg7-mf45>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112891>
- <https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/68a3fe957d8a4d552e8c69d96066d749f0614c7e>
- <https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow>
- <https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

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