CVE-2026-112893 Pillow - Memory Corruption

Pillow >= 10.0.0 and < 13.0.0 contains a memory corruption caused by freeing an invalid glyph pointer during FreeType rendering with an active stroker, letting attackers crash the process or corrupt memory by supplying malformed fonts, exploit requires drawing text with nonzero stroke width.

CVSS base score 8.2 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
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Details

Type
Memory Corruption
Impact
Denial Of Service
CVSS vector
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Published
19 October 2026
Updated
20 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-457

Vendor fix

Update to version 13.0.0 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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