CVE-2026-96644

Pillow: Heap over-read in WMF/EMF rendering via 16-bit dimension truncation (Windows builds)

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: October 21, 2026 at 08:54 PM UTC
Updated: October 22, 2026 at 04:46 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPillow

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0 on Windows, src/PIL/WmfImagePlugin.py passes unchecked 32-bit WMF or EMF dimensions to the native drawwmf handler in src/display.c. The handler sizes a DIB allocation from 16-bit-truncated bcWidth and bcHeight fields but copies pixel data using the original full dimensions. A crafted wide, short metafile can pass the pixel-count decompression-bomb check and make the Windows-only renderer read beyond the heap buffer, potentially disclosing memory or crashing the process. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Affected

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Remediation

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CVSS

7.1HIGHGitHub_M
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StatusUNDERGOING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-125

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