CVE-2026-96778
Pillow: Heap buffer overflow writing JPEG comment after ICC profile fills buffer
HIGH 7.7
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.45 % · percentile 39 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.4.0 until 13.0.0, ImagingJpegEncode() in src/libImaging/JpegEncode.c can call jpeg_write_marker() for a JPEG COM comment when an ICC profile has exactly filled the 65536-byte encoder buffer. libjpeg writes one byte before checking the exhausted free_in_buffer counter, which then wraps and permits the attacker-controlled comment and subsequent compressed image data to overwrite adjacent heap memory. Re-saving an untrusted image as JPEG while preserving its ICC profile and forwarded comment can crash the process and may enable code execution in suitable runtime and heap layouts. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 4.0 | HIGH 7.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | GitHub_M |
| CVSS 4.0 | HIGH 7.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X | NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
Advisories
- GHSA-g7cr-3p24-7wf7 — Pillow: Heap buffer overflow writing JPEG comment after ICC profile fills buffer
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-107566
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-96778
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:python:pillow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 9.4.0 < 13.0.0
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| python-pillow · Pillow | affected >= 9.4.0, < 13.0.0 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |