SB2026041113 - Resource exhaustion in Pillow
Published: April 11, 2026
Security Bulletin ID
SB2026041113
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-40192)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption in the FITS image decoder when parsing a specially crafted GZIP-compressed FITS file. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted FITS file to cause a denial of service.
The issue can result in unbounded memory consumption, leading to an out-of-memory crash or severe performance degradation.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.