CVE-2026-112897

Pillow: TiffDecode returns uninitialized memory as pixels for short JPEG strips

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Oct 19, 2026
Updated
Oct 22, 2026
Reserved
Oct 19, 2026

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Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.3.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can return uninitialized memory as pixels when libtiff performs a short decode of JPEG-compressed or Group 4 fax TIFF data. The _decodeStrip and _decodeTile buffers can be larger than the bytes written by libtiff, but Pillow converts the expected rows without clearing the unwritten tail. The tile path is affected from 5.3.0 and the strip path from 6.0.0. An attacker can supply a crafted TIFF to an application that loads and returns or re-encodes its pixels. This can disclose stale heap contents without memory corruption or a process crash. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Pillowpython-pillow
  • >= 5.3.0, < 13.0.0Affected

References

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