High

Pillow has an OOB Write with Invalid PSD Tile Extents (Integer Overflow)

  • Disclosed: 04.05.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 15:17

Impact

Processing a malicious PSD file could lead to memory corruption, potentially resulting in a crash or arbitrary code execution.

Patches

Patched version: 12.2.0

Pillow 12.1.1 addressed CVE-2026-25990 by adding checks for tile extents in PSD image decoding/encoding to prevent an out-of-bounds write. However, the bounds checks computed tile extent sums using types susceptible to integer overflow, meaning a PSD image with carefully chosen tile dimensions could produce values that wrap around and bypass the checks, still triggering an out-of-bounds write in src/decode.c and src/encode.c. The fix avoids adding extents together before comparison.

Workarounds

Use any version but affected versions: >= 10.3.0, < 12.2.0

Resources

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) pillow >= 10.3.0, < 12.2.0 12.2.0

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-190, CWE-787
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
pillow
Disclosed
04.05.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 15:17

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2026-2252 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-pwv6-vv43-88gr - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: pillow

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (81) in the archive
Total entries
81
First → latest
04.2014 10.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
1

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 10
  • High 53
  • Medium 16
  • Low 1
  • Unrated 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2017: 1
  2. 2018: 0
  3. 2019: 1
  4. 2020: 10
  5. 2021: 20
  6. 2022: 8
  7. 2023: 3
  8. 2024: 2
  9. 2025: 1
  10. 2026: 23

earlier: 12

Severity:
  1. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-59200 >= 5.1.0, < 12.3.0 12.3.0
  2. Pillow has an OOB Write with Invalid PSD Tile Extents (Integer Overflow) this entry
    High CVE-2026-42311 >= 10.3.0, < 12.2.0 12.2.0
  3. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-40192 >= 10.3.0, < 12.2.0 12.2.0
  4. High CVE-2026-25990 >= 10.3.0, < 12.1.1 12.1.1
  5. High · 7.1 CVE-2025-48379 >= 11.2.0, < 11.3.0 11.3.0
  6. High · 6.7 CVE-2024-28219 < 10.3.0 10.3.0
  7. Critical · 8.1 CVE-2023-50447 < 10.2.0 10.2.0
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