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CVE-2026-114501VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Pillow: From 11.2.1 until 13.0.0, Arrow export assumes that an image's rows are tightly contiguous and exports from

Affects pillowSource GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-114501· Medium 6.3

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.3 Medium : upgrade to 13.0.0 when convenient.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026, 11:12 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
6.3Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 13.0.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 21 Oct 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade pillow to 13.0.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
PyPIpillowpkg:pypi/pillowOther threatsAffected
  • 11.2.1 – 12.3.0
  • >=11.2.1 <13.0.0
7 affected builds
Fixed in
  • 13.0.0

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Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 11.2.1 until 13.0.0, Arrow export assumes that an image's rows are tightly contiguous and exports from im->blocks[0].ptr even when PILLOW_ALIGNMENT makes aligned_linesize include row padding or an aligned offset before the first row. The resulting Arrow buffer can include uninitialized padding, bytes preceding the first row, or stale heap contents from previously freed images. Applications that configure alignment and export images to Arrow can therefore disclose one user's pixels or other process memory to another user. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.

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