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CVE-2026-55798: Pillow: WindowsViewer.get_command() OS command injection via unescaped shell path

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-07-06 · updated 2026-10-25
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 12.3.0, WindowsViewer.get_command() constructed a cmd.exe shell command by directly embedding a file path into an f-string without escaping and passed the result to subprocess.Popen(..., shell=True), allowing shell metacharacters in the file path to inject arbitrary cmd.exe commands. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.

Affected products

• python-pillow Pillow: before 12.3.0 — fixed in 12.3.0
• Pypi Pillow: before 12.3.0; 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (+100) — fixed in 12.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: python-pillow Pillow 12.3.0; Pypi Pillow 12.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/main/docs/releasenotes/12.3.0.rst
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/8404ea5fe5df40fc34aa1e51403dd6fce0778b8a
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/88194166691b7b603529b8b036ab3ab9cedd2de4
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/b0e06caa64c1405aa3da0bb1d2bd9a77ca22de7f
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-4x4j-2g7c-83w6
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-4x4j-2g7c-83w6

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