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CVE-2026-128066

Pillow: Memory DoS in TIFF and EXIF IFD parsing via overlapping tag data

  • High 8.7

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 1.0 through 12.3.0, ImageFileDirectory_v2.load() in src/PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py retains a separate bytes object for each out-of-line IFD tag value without limiting the total data read or preventing distinct tags from referencing the same file region. A small crafted TIFF or EXIF-bearing JPEG, PNG, WebP, or MPO can therefore cause memory use quadratic in the input size. TIFF and some JPEG paths trigger parsing during Image.open(), while other formats are exposed when EXIF is requested, including through getexif() or ImageOps.exif_transpose(). The declared pixel dimensions do not bound this metadata allocation, so decompression-bomb checks do not prevent process memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Key facts

Published
12 Nov 2026
Last changed
12 Nov 2026
Assigned by
GitHub_M
EPSS
0.377% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 32.201% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)

Severity scores

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  • 8.7CVSS 4.0, Highfrom the CNA (GitHub_M)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Historical context and remediation

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Affected products

VendorProductVersions
python-pillowPillow
  • >= 1.0, < 13.0.0 (affected)

Timeline

  1. 12 Nov 2026 Published

Weakness

References