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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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.
Title Pillow TGA RLE encoder can serialize up to ~57 KB of adjacent heap data into generated images
Weaknesses CWE-125
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-07-14T16:07:56.562Z

Reserved: 2026-07-02T19:53:48.831Z

Link: CVE-2026-59198

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Updated: 2026-07-14T17:30:04Z