Medium severity · published Oct 21, 2026
CVE-2026-96641
Pillow: Reachable undefined behavior in native integer operations, potentially leading to denial of service or logic integrity compromise
New
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0, PILfont text-width accumulation in src/_imaging.c checks positive glyph advances against INT_MAX but does not check negative advances against INT_MIN. Repeating a signed 16-bit advance of -32768 can therefore execute a signed C integer overflow in xsize += dx, producing a large positive width from a negative mathematical result. Applications that use getlength(), getsize(), or derived layout, quota, serialization, or allocation calculations can experience logic-integrity errors or resource consumption, while the high-level mask path commonly retains a decompression-bomb check. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PI
Pillow · python-pillow
< 13.0.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96641
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96641
Patch
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/80de4be9e38d3a6148dd4d8491eb80cd12b760a4
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/10010
Release Notes
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/13.0.0
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-4rm8-3hmm-39fg
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