CVE-2026-112897: Pillow: TiffDecode returns uninitialized memory as pixels for short JPEG strips
python-pillow · Pillow
Affected: python-pillow Pillow · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 41% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.3.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can return uninitialized memory as pixels when libtiff performs a short decode of JPEG-compressed or Group 4 fax TIFF data. The _decodeStrip and _decodeTile buffers can be larger than the bytes written by libtiff, but Pillow converts the expected rows without clearing the unwritten tail. The tile path is affected from 5.3.0 and the strip path from 6.0.0. An attacker can supply a crafted TIFF to an application that loads and returns or re-encodes its pixels. This can disclose stale heap contents without memory corruption or a process crash. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- python-pillow · Pillow>= 5.3.0, < 13.0.0
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- python-pillow
- Published
- October 2026
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