Advisory record · GHSA-v9pv-5gc8-w2m6

Pillow multi-frame loaders can reuse stale native image storage after mode transitions

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0066 · 51st percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 22 Oct 2026, 16:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
pillowPyPI>=11.0.0, <13.0.013.0.0
Identifiers
GHSA-v9pv-5gc8-w2m6 · BIT-pillow-2026-96639 · CVE-2026-96639 · PYSEC-2026-4339
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-125 · CWE-787
Published
22 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 11.0.0 up to but not including 13.0.0 are affected. A crafted multi-frame image (such as PSD, MPO, DCX, or MIC) can cause a later frame to decode into native image storage allocated for an earlier frame with a different mode, leading to out-of-bounds writes and process crashes. The report also describes command execution in a test environment via the MPO/JPEG path, with an attacker needing only to submit a crafted image to a service that processes it with Pillow. Upgrade to Pillow 13.0.0 or later, which is the listed fixed version.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0066, the 51st 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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