vulnerability / NVI-00016277 / Revision 2
Pillow EpsImagePlugin negative %%BeginBinary byte count causes infinite loop denial of service
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01 / Meaning
Why it matters
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5.3 medium
GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.
As of · GitHub Advisory Database
0.399%
FIRST EPSS model v2026.06.15; exploitation probability over 30 days, percentile 0.34321. Missing scores are unknown.
As of · FIRST EPSS
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
pillow
source listed>= 12.0.0, < 12.3.0
### Summary Pillow's EPS parser (PIL/EpsImagePlugin.py) accepts a negative byte count in the %%BeginBinary directive. A crafted EPS file can cause Image.open() to seek backwards to the same directive and parse it repeatedly, resulting in an infinite loop and CPU denial of service. The issue is triggered during Image.open(), does not require Image.load(), and does not require Ghostscript execution. Confirmed affected versions: Pillow 12.0.0 through 12.2.0. ### Details The issue is in the EPS parser in PIL/EpsImagePlugin.py. When parsing an EPS %%BeginBinary directive, Pillow reads the byte count from the file and passes it directly to a relative seek operation without validating that the value is non-negative. Relevant code: elif bytes_mv[:14] == b"%%BeginBinary:": bytecount = int(byte_arr[14:bytes_read]) self.fp.seek(bytecount, os.SEEK_CUR) There is no validation that bytecount is non-negative. If an attacker provides a negative value such as %%BeginBinary:-18, the parser moves the file pointer backwards from the end of the directive line to the same line region. The next parser iteration reads the same %%BeginBinary:-18 directive again, performs the sa
03 / Response
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04 / Limits
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05 / Provenance
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- GHSA-pg7v-jwj7-p798 ↗
GitHub Advisory Database · vendor advisory
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- CVE-2026-59203 ↗
FIRST EPSS · official catalog
Observed . FIRST EPSS; probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, not local compromise. Dataset date/model retained; FIRST services terms apply.
Public revision history
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- Revision 2 ·
Dated EPSS estimate updated; this is not a new disclosure or proof of exploitation.
- Revision 1 ·
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