CVE-2026-96640

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96640
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-96640.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-96640
Aliases
Downstream
CGA (28)
DEBIAN (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2026-10-21T21:03:22Z
Modified
2026-10-22T11:19:42Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
Pillow PDF append accepts malformed shared page-tree DAG causing resource exhaustion
Details

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.1.0 until 13.0.0, PdfParser.linearize_page_tree() in src/PIL/PdfParser.py treats a PDF /Pages graph as a tree without tracking duplicate indirect references. When Image.save(..., format="PDF", append=True) processes an attacker-controlled existing PDF whose /Kids arrays repeatedly reference the same child /Pages node, Pillow expands the shared subtree as distinct pages. A compact malformed PDF can therefore create exponentially many page references and consume disproportionate CPU before the append completes. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-407"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/96xxx/CVE-2026-96640.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/python-pillow/pillow

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow
Events
Introduced
fda33d5c09142c4bb0e99964919d01c2cc5f5995
Fixed
293218ad059d994baf1777d882911bed6a49704a
Fixed
6f0e7ee1f9c2fe227906f8a4b926e6622b702bc7
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "5.1.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "13.0.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy": "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "6f0e7ee1f9c2fe227906f8a4b926e6622b702bc7"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag": "13.0.0",
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "293218ad059d994baf1777d882911bed6a49704a"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

10.*
10.0.0
10.1.0
10.2.0
10.3.0
10.4.0
11.*
11.0.0
11.1.0
11.2.1
11.3.0
12.*
12.0.0
12.1.0
12.2.0
12.3.0
5.*
5.1.0
5.2.0
5.3.0
5.4.0
6.*
6.0.0
6.1.0
6.2.0
7.*
7.0.0
7.1.0
7.2.0
8.*
8.0.0
8.1.0
8.2.0
8.3.0
8.4.0
9.*
9.0.0
9.1.0
9.2.0
9.3.0
9.4.0
9.5.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-96640.json"