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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2026-25990 json

Pillow has an out-of-bounds write when loading PSD images

published 2026-02-11 8 mo ago modified 2026-09-16 54 d ago also BIT-pillow-2026-25990 , EUVD-2026-6218 , GHSA-cfh3-3jmp-rvhc , PYSEC-2026-2249

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 10.3.0 to before 12.1.1, an out-of-bounds write may be triggered when loading a specially crafted PSD image. This vulnerability is fixed in 12.1.1.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pillow 12.1.1
  • bitnami pillow 12.1.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:12.1.1-1.el8ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:12.1.1-1.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 0:12.1.1-1.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 0:12.1.1-1.el8pc
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 0:12.1.1-1.el9pc
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 0:12.1.1-1.el9pc
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 0:12.1.1-1.el9pc
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 1772160593, 1772160625, 1772713830
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.3 1778244546
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 1774414699
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 1774417022
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 1776243238, 1776243239, 1776243249, 1776243299, 1776243309, 1776247907, 1776257621, 1776259063, 1776318795, 1776319179, 1776319185, 1776319193, 1776319275, 1776319453, 1776336534, 1776336652, 1783998774, 1783998857
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 1778264363, 1778600187
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.10 1773971077
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.12 1773771962
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.15 1775169219
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.16 1775069491, 1775169226
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.9 1773936323
  • pillow Debian 13 11.1.0-5+deb13u1
  • pillow Debian 14 12.1.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-25990

  • pillow Ubuntu 25.10 11.3.0-1ubuntu1.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-25990

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • candlepin satellite 6.18 4.6.6-1.el9sat
  • dynflow-utils satellite capsule 6.18, satellite 6.18 2.0.1-1.el9sat
  • candlepin-selinux satellite 6.18 4.6.6-1.el9sat
  • python3.12-pillow satellite capsule 6.18, satellite 6.18 12.1.1-1.el9pc
  • candlepin satellite 6.16 4.4.25-1.el8sat
  • candlepin satellite 6.17, satellite 6.16 4.4.25-1.el9sat
  • python-pillow satellite capsule 6.16, satellite 6.16 12.1.1-1.el8pc
  • python-pillow satellite capsule 6.17, satellite capsule 6.16, satellite 6.17 +1 more 12.1.1-1.el9pc

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:28385RHSA-2026:14874RHSA-2026:14873RHSA-2026:6278RHSA-2026:6277

  • python-Pillow SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 11.3.0-160000.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20992-1

  • python-Pillow openSUSE Leap 16.0 11.3.0-160000.3.1
  • python-Pillow openSUSE Tumbleweed 12.1.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20458-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10198-1

  • py3-pillow Alpine 3.23 11.3.0-r2
  • py3-pillow Alpine 3.24 12.1.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-25990

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-25990 updated cvss 7.3

pillow: Pillow: Out-of-bounds Write via Specially Crafted PSD Image

  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-ocp-rag-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-rag-tool-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaiis/vllm-tpu-rhel9, rhai/docling-cuda-rhel9, rhaiis-preview/vllm-cuda-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 python3.11-pillow, ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform/automation-dashboard-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-aws-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gcp-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-azure-cuda-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-llama-stack-core-rhel9, rhoai/odh-openvino-model-server-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-storage-initializer-rhel9, rhoai/odh-trustyai-ragas-lls-provider-dsp-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 python-pillow
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 rhaiis 1772160593, rhaiis 1772160625, rhaiis 1772713830
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:4128
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.3 rhaiis 1778244546
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:16174
show 17 more
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 ansible-automation-platform-25 1774414699
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:6308
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 python3.12-pillow 12.1.1-1.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 python3.12-pillow 12.1.1-1.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:6278
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 ansible-automation-platform-26 1774417022
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:6309
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 python3.12-pillow 12.1.1-1.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:6277
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 rhoai 1776243238, rhoai 1776243239, rhoai 1776243249, rhoai 1776243299, rhoai 1776243309, rhoai 1776247907, +12 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:10184
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai 1778264363, rhoai 1778600187
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:19712
  • Red Hat Quay 3.9 quay 1773936323
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:5168
  • Red Hat Quay 3.10 quay 1773971077
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:5665
  • Red Hat Quay 3.12 quay 1773771962
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:4942
  • Red Hat Quay 3.15 quay 1775169219
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:6568
  • Red Hat Quay 3.16 quay 1775069491, quay 1775169226
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:6497
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 python-pillow 12.1.1-1.el8pc, python3.11-pillow 12.1.1-1.el8pc Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 python-pillow 12.1.1-1.el9pc, python3.11-pillow 12.1.1-1.el9pc
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:14874
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 python-pillow 12.1.1-1.el9pc, python3.11-pillow 12.1.1-1.el9pc
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:14873
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 python3.12-pillow 12.1.1-1.el9pc
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:28385
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 python-pillow, python3x-pillow Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 ansible-automation-platform 1774617799, ansible-automation-platform 1774617957, ansible-automation-platform-25 1774167149, ansible-automation-platform-25 1774167211, ansible-automation-platform-25 1774167244, ansible-automation-platform-25 1774167254, +21 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 receptor 1.6.4-1.el8ap, receptorctl 1.6.4-1.el8ap, ansible-core 2.16.17-1.el8ap, ansible-test 2.16.17-1.el8ap, automation-hub 4.10.13-1.el8ap, python3.12-django 5.2.12-1.el8ap, +37 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.6.4-1.el9ap, receptorctl 1.6.4-1.el9ap, ansible-core 2.16.17-1.el9ap, ansible-test 2.16.17-1.el9ap, automation-hub 4.10.13-1.el9ap, python3.12-django 5.2.12-1.el9ap, +37 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 ansible-automation-platform 1774648896, ansible-automation-platform 1774648925, ansible-automation-platform-26 1774139204, ansible-automation-platform-26 1774139334, ansible-automation-platform-26 1774153089, ansible-automation-platform-26 1774243862, +22 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.6.4-1.el9ap, receptorctl 1.6.4-1.el9ap, ansible-core 2.16.17-1.el9ap, ansible-test 2.16.17-1.el9ap, automation-hub 4.11.7-1.el9ap, ansible-rulebook 1.2.2-1.el9ap, +40 more
    +3 more products
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 10 receptor 1.6.4-2.el10ap, receptorctl 1.6.4-2.el10ap, ansible-core 2.16.17-2.el10ap, python-django 5.2.12-2.el10ap, python-asgiref 3.11.1-2.el10ap, python3-django 5.2.12-2.el10ap, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 python-pillow, python-pillow-qt, python-pillow-tk, python-pillow-sane Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 python-pillow, python3-pillow, python3-pillow-tk
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-caikit-nlp-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-agent-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-router-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-controller-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 rhoai 1775144403, rhoai 1776243157, rhoai 1776243163, rhoai 1776243192, rhoai 1776243217, rhoai 1776243229, +129 more Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai 1778239104, rhoai 1778262829, rhoai 1778262856, rhoai 1778262893, rhoai 1778262907, rhoai 1778262952, +74 more Red Hat Quay 3.9 quay 1772725093, quay 1772728539, quay 1772739181, quay 1773931180, quay 1773931187, quay 1773931200, +3 more Red Hat Quay 3.10 quay 1772725047, quay 1772726823, quay 1772739218, quay 1774021695, quay 1774021704, quay 1774021722, +3 more Red Hat Quay 3.12 quay 1772054192, quay 1772054202, quay 1772132933, quay 1773761676, quay 1773765467, quay 1773765477, +3 more Red Hat Quay 3.15 quay 1774979159, quay 1774979227, quay 1774980222, quay 1774980224, quay 1774984603, quay 1775183105, +3 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

5 more not affected in the full advisory

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADP 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CNA 4.0 8.6 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pillow
>=10.3.0, <12.1.1
12.1.1
bitnami pillow
>=10.3.0, <12.1.1
12.1.1

Affected products

  • python-pillow Pillow
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.12
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.15
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.9
  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.