CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-112401

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.65%

51th percentile - higher than 51% of all known CVEs

Summary

Pillow from 5.4.0 until 13.0.0 performs quadratic copying while parsing GIF comments. GifImageFile._seek() repeatedly appends immutable bytes for comment sub-blocks and multiple comment extensions, and frame zero is parsed during Image.open().

Risk Assessment

An attacker can submit a small-dimension GIF containing many comment extensions to any application that opens the file, consuming excessive CPU and denying service before the image can be inspected. This affects availability of image-processing services.

Recommendation

Update Pillow to version 13.0.0 or later. Consider limiting the number of comment extensions in GIF files.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.4.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow performs quadratic copying while parsing GIF comments. GifImageFile._seek() repeatedly appends immutable bytes for comment sub-blocks and multiple comment extensions, and frame zero is parsed during Image.open(). An attacker can submit a small-dimension GIF containing many comment extensions to any application that opens the file. This can consume excessive CPU and deny service before the application can inspect the image. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS