CVE-2026-96638

MEDIUM Status: Received

CVSS Scores

CVSS v3.x Base Score
6.5
MEDIUM

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.1.0 until 13.0.0, BmpRleDecoder.decode() in src/PIL/BmpImagePlugin.py permits crafted RLE BMP delta escapes and absolute-mode runs to append beyond the remaining dest_length without a per-branch cap. A delta can add roughly 255 image rows in one iteration, so a kilobyte-sized file with a large but permitted width can expand the data bytearray to hundreds of megabytes or more, causing memory-exhaustion denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Published
October 21, 2026 9:20 PM
Last Modified
October 21, 2026 9:20 PM
Source
[email protected]

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400 CWE-770

References

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