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CVE-2026-28231

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (5.5) in bigcat88 pillow-heif. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in pi-heif 1.3.0.

pillow_heif is a Python library for working with HEIF images and plugin for Pillow. Prior to version 1.3.0, an integer overflow in the encode path buffer validation of `_pillow_heif.c` allows an attacker to bypass bounds checks by providing large image dimensions, resulting in a heap out-of-bounds read. This can lead to information disclosure (server heap memory leaking into encoded images) or denial of service (process crash). No special configuration is required — this triggers under default settings. Version 1.3.0 fixes the issue.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

5.5 medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

CVSS 3.1

9.1 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-125, CWE-190
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-5gjj-6r7v-ph3xPyPIpi-heif<1.3.01.3.0
GHSA-5gjj-6r7v-ph3xPyPIpillow-heif<1.3.01.3.0
PYSEC-2026-2248PyPIpi-heif<1.3.01.3.0
PYSEC-2026-2258PyPIpillow-heif<1.3.01.3.0

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