Medium severity · published Oct 21, 2026
CVE-2026-114501
Pillow: Arrow export leaks stale heap memory when PILLOW_ALIGNMENT > 1
New
5.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 11.2.1 until 13.0.0, Arrow export assumes that an image's rows are tightly contiguous and exports from im->blocks[0].ptr even when PILLOW_ALIGNMENT makes aligned_linesize include row padding or an aligned offset before the first row. The resulting Arrow buffer can include uninitialized padding, bytes preceding the first row, or stale heap contents from previously freed images. Applications that configure alignment and export images to Arrow can therefore disclose one user's pixels or other process memory to another user. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PI
Pillow · python-pillow
>= 11.2.1, < 13.0.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-114501
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-114501
Patch
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/19f64946eb247b973dd4560be7dea3bf979d2e6a
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/10172
Release Notes
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-654x-cwwv-5j9c
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