GHSA-g4qv-2jxx-769h: pillow (CVE-2026-96643)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
pillow	PyPI	>=11.0.0, <13.0.0	13.0.0

Machine-written summary

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

Pillow versions 11.0.0 up to but not including 13.0.0 are affected. A PNG file with a very large eXIf chunk filled with repeated EXIF markers makes EXIF parsing take quadratic time, so an attacker who can get such a file processed (for example through an image upload) can cause seconds of CPU use per request, which is a denial-of-service impact. Upgrade to Pillow 13.0.0, which is listed as the fixed version.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.1	High	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/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

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

Sources

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