CVE-2026-96642 Pillow - Denial of Service

Pillow < 13.0.0 contains a denial of service caused by negative octal member size in TarIO initializer leading to infinite loop in src/PIL/TarIO.py, letting attackers consume full CPU core, exploit requires direct use of PIL.TarIO.TarIO.

CVSS base score 7.1 /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:N/PR:N/UI:P/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-835

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.

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