CVE-2026-96640 Pillow - Denial of Service

Pillow 5.1.0 to 13.0.0 contains a denial of service caused by improper handling of duplicate indirect references in PDF /Pages graph in PdfParser.linearize_page_tree(), letting attackers cause excessive CPU consumption by crafting malformed PDFs, exploit requires attacker-controlled PDF input.

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

Type
Denial of Service
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
21 October 2026
Updated
22 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-400

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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