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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-112901

Pillow: ReDoS in XbmImagePlugin: 512-byte file stalls Image.open() for minutes

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0, Pillow's XBM header parser is vulnerable to regular-expression denial of service. In XbmImageFile._open, when an application calls Image.open() on a small crafted XBM file, XbmImagePlugin applies a backtracking expression to the attacker-controlled header before image dimensions are accepted, stalling a worker for minutes and denying service. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

python-pillow Pillow

  • < 13.0.0affected

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