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SCA: security update for pillow (GHSA-24rc-8hj2-v98c)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 476858

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2026-96638)

Solution

Update the pillow library and its related packages to version 13.0.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-24rc-8hj2-v98c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 476858

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/22/2026

Updated: 10/22/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.71

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-96638

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-96638