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CVE-2026-59203 (GCVE-0-2026-59203)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-14 15:43 – Updated: 2026-07-15 13:52
VLAI
Title
Pillow EpsImagePlugin negative %%BeginBinary byte count causes infinite loop denial of service
Summary
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 12.0.0 through 12.2.0, Pillow's EPS parser in PIL/EpsImagePlugin.py accepts a negative byte count in the %%BeginBinary directive, allowing a crafted EPS file to cause Image.open() to seek backwards to the same directive and parse it repeatedly in an infinite loop. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-15 13:52 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
python-pillow Pillow Affected: >= 12.0.0, < 12.3.0
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