CVE-2026-59203 (GCVE-0-2026-59203)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-14 15:43
Modified
2026-07-15 13:52
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
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.
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python-pillow Pillow Version: >= 12.0.0, < 12.3.0
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