{"id":10504,"date":"2026-10-23T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/critical-flaw-in-pythons-popular-pillow-image-library-allows-code-execution-via-a-crafted-image\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:13:30","slug":"critical-flaw-in-pythons-popular-pillow-image-library-allows-code-execution-via-a-crafted-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/critical-flaw-in-pythons-popular-pillow-image-library-allows-code-execution-via-a-crafted-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Flaw in Python\u2019s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bPillow, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw,\u00a0CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens by passing the file&#8217;s name to Ghostscript, a separate program it runs to turn the image into pixels, without checking the name first.\u00a0Pillow, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw,\u00a0CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens by passing the file&#8217;s name to Ghostscript, a separate program it runs to turn the image into pixels, without checking the name first.\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bPillow, 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,\u00a0CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens by passing the file&#8217;s name to Ghostscript, a separate program&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/critical-flaw-in-pythons-popular-pillow-image-library-allows-code-execution-via-a-crafted-image\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critical Flaw in Python\u2019s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}