Medium 5.3Published Jul 14, 2026

CVE-2026-59203Pillow EpsImagePlugin negative %%BeginBinary byte count causes infinite loop denial of service

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 7:50 AM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness (CWE): CWE-835
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jul 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

python-pillow Pillow python_pillow:pillow (from the name)	from 12.0.0, < 12.3.0	CNA record
python pillow python:pillow	from 12.0.0 before 12.3.0	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-pg7v-jwj7-p798	x-refsource-confirm, exploit, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9708	x-refsource-misc, issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/03992618118b4a76b6163cd72ab5ecd684133b83	x-refsource-misc, patch
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/12.3.0	x-refsource-misc, release-notes

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