python-pillow/pillow · Security
Pillow has an OOB Write with Invalid PSD Tile Extents (Integer Overflow)
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-pwv6-vv43-88gr
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-42311
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 8.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
Processing a malicious PSD file could lead to memory corruption, potentially resulting in a crash or arbitrary code execution.
Patches
Patched version: 12.2.0
Pillow 12.1.1 addressed CVE-2026-25990 by adding checks for tile extents in PSD image decoding/encoding to prevent an out-of-bounds write. However, the bounds checks computed tile extent sums using types susceptible to integer overflow, meaning a PSD image with carefully chosen tile dimensions could produce values that wrap around and bypass the checks, still triggering an out-of-bounds write in src/decode.c and src/encode.c. The fix avoids adding extents together before comparison.
Workarounds
Use any version but affected versions: >= 10.3.0, < 12.2.0
Resources
- Fix: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9520
- Original issue: CVE-2026-25990 (Pillow 12.1.1)
CWEs
- CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound
- CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
References
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-cfh3-3jmp-rvhc ↗
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-pwv6-vv43-88gr ↗
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9520 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42311 ↗
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/58f9a1d166dcb0c274807d4423522d205b0c35ea ↗
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/12.2.0 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwv6-vv43-88gr ↗