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CVE-2026-96642

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 64/100
Published: 2026-10-21 Modified: 2026-10-27 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: Passive
S: X
AT: None
VC: None
VI: None
VA: High

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0, the TarIO initializer in src/PIL/TarIO.py accepts a negative octal member size and computes a backward seek that returns to the same 512-byte header. When the requested member name does not match, the parser repeatedly reads that header, consumes a full CPU core, and never returns. TarIO is reached only when an application directly uses PIL.TarIO.TarIO rather than the default Image.open() path. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
python pillow < 13.0.0
python pillow < 13.0.0

References & Advisories (4)

Bug Bounty Relevance

64 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity

CVSS Score

7.1 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.34%
Raw Score 0.003450
Percentile 28.0%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00345
2026-10-28
0.00345

Intelligence Sources

nvd ref →

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