CVE-2026-96638

medium

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.1.0 until 13.0.0, BmpRleDecoder.decode() in src/PIL/BmpImagePlugin.py permits crafted RLE BMP delta escapes and absolute-mode runs to append beyond the remaining dest_length without a per-branch cap. A delta can add roughly 255 image rows in one iteration, so a kilobyte-sized file with a large but permitted width can expand the data bytearray to hundreds of megabytes or more, causing memory-exhaustion denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

References

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-24rc-8hj2-v98c

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/10015

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/e7794835e323ff2691d9b3a974cade1a44301b9a

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-107559

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-21

Updated: 2026-10-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0028