CVE-2026-112398 PUBLISHED

Pillow: Heap buffer overflow in FlashPix (FPX) JPEG decoding leads to code execution

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 19.10.2026 Published: 19.10.2026 Updated: 19.10.2026

Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0, Pillow's FlashPix JPEG-tile decoder can write decoded scanlines beyond the allocated tile buffer. FlashPix (FPX) JPEG decoding selects raw mode LA with two bytes per pixel, while an unrecognized JPEG mode can be decoded as JCS_UNKNOWN with four components, causing ImagingJpegDecode to write four-component scanlines into the two-byte tile buffer. An attacker can supply a crafted OLE2 FlashPix file to an application with the optional olefile dependency installed that opens or thumbnails untrusted input. This can corrupt heap memory and may allow arbitrary code execution. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor python-pillow
Product Pillow
Versions
  • Version < 13.0.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE