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01 Record

CVE-2026-96637

Pillow: Decompression bomb check bypass in SpiderImagePlugin.seek() leads to unbounded allocation DoS

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score7.1 CVSS v4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

02 Description

Pillow: Decompression bomb check bypass in SpiderImagePlugin.seek() leads to unbounded allocation DoS

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
Not scored by EPSS
EPSS percentile
Not scored by EPSS
NVD base score
The NVD has published no score for this record
NVD CVSS vector
No NVD score to derive
NVD analysis status
Not recorded
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2026-10-21 21:01Z1 HR AGO
Last updated
2026-10-21 21:01Z1 HR AGO
Reserved
2026-09-23
Assigning CNA
GitHub_M
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.1)
CNA CVSS vector
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
Weaknesses
  • CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
  • CWE-409Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)Base
Data version
5.2
Document digest
27acb57f4b21a61f4e0dea98cc56f7647aa8786f24718306bdd71f63a196e70a

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
python-pillowPillow< 13.0.0—

06 References