CVE-2026-96642

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96642
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-96642.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-96642
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-10-21T20:49:56Z
Modified
2026-10-22T10:46:34Z
Severity
  • 7.1 (High) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
Pillow: TarIO negative size field causes infinite CPU-spin loop
Details

Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0, the TarIO initializer in src/PIL/TarIO.py accepts a negative octal member size and computes a backward seek that returns to the same 512-byte header. When the requested member name does not match, the parser repeatedly reads that header, consumes a full CPU core, and never returns. TarIO is reached only when an application directly uses PIL.TarIO.TarIO rather than the default Image.open() path. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Database specific 
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    "cwe_ids":  [
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                    "range":  [
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                            "fixed":  "13.0.0"
                        },
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                            "fixed":  "13.0.0"
                        }
                    ],
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                }
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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
19b695fdcc5eddc37374e2b1645fc4185edaf71d
Fixed
293218ad059d994baf1777d882911bed6a49704a
Database specific
Show details 
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                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "13.0.0",
            "range":  [
                {
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                }
            ],
            "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-2026-96642.json"