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Critical Flaw in Python’s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image

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Published by the source: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:06:00 +0530

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Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open. The flaw, CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens by passing the file's name to Ghostscript, a separate program it runs to turn the image into pixels, without checking the name first.

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