CVE-2026-59198
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Heap Buffer Overflow in Pillow TGA RLE Encoder
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-59198, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-07-14
Last updated on: 2026-07-14
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
Description
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.2.0 until 12.3.0, Pillow's TGA RLE encoder reads past its packed row buffer when saving a mode 1 image with TGA RLE compression, allowing adjacent process heap bytes to be copied into the generated TGA file. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| python | pillow | From 5.2.0 (inc) to 12.3.0 (exc) |
| python | pillow | 12.3.0 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-125 | The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. |
