CVE-2026-96640

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96640
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-96640.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-96640
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-10-21T21:03:22Z
Modified
2026-10-22T10:46:26Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Pillow PDF append accepts malformed shared page-tree DAG causing resource exhaustion
Details

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.1.0 until 13.0.0, PdfParser.linearize_page_tree() in src/PIL/PdfParser.py treats a PDF /Pages graph as a tree without tracking duplicate indirect references. When Image.save(..., format="PDF", append=True) processes an attacker-controlled existing PDF whose /Kids arrays repeatedly reference the same child /Pages node, Pillow expands the shared subtree as distinct pages. A compact malformed PDF can therefore create exponentially many page references and consume disproportionate CPU before the append completes. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Database specific 
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    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-407"
    ],
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    "unresolved_ranges":  [
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                    ],
                    "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy":  "StringRangeExpression"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events":  [
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                        {
                            "fixed":  "13.0.0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source":  "DESCRIPTION"
                }
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        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python-pillow/pillow

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
6f0e7ee1f9c2fe227906f8a4b926e6622b702bc7
Fixed
293218ad059d994baf1777d882911bed6a49704a
Database specific
Show details 
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                {
                    "fixed":  "6f0e7ee1f9c2fe227906f8a4b926e6622b702bc7"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "13.0.0",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "293218ad059d994baf1777d882911bed6a49704a"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.0
1.2
1.7.7
1.7.8
10.*
10.0.0
10.1.0
10.2.0
10.3.0
10.4.0
11.*
11.0.0
11.1.0
11.2.1
11.3.0
12.*
12.0.0
12.1.0
12.2.0
12.3.0
2.*
2.0.0
2.1.0
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.3.0
2.5.0
2.7.0
2.8.0
2.8.1
2.9.0
2.9.0.dev0
2.9.0.dev1
2.9.0.dev2
3.*
3.1.0
3.1.0-rc1
3.2.0
3.3.0
3.4.0
4.*
4.0.0
4.0.0a
4.1.0
4.2.0
4.3.0
5.*
5.0.0
5.1.0
5.2.0
5.3.0
5.4.0
6.*
6.0.0
6.1.0
6.2.0
7.*
7.0.0
7.1.0
7.2.0
8.*
8.0.0
8.1.0
8.2.0
8.3.0
8.4.0
9.*
9.0.0
9.1.0
9.2.0
9.3.0
9.4.0
9.5.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-96640.json"