CVE-2026-55798 (GCVE-0-2026-55798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-06 18:44 – Updated: 2026-07-07 15:19
VLAI
Title
Pillow: WindowsViewer.get_command() OS command injection via unescaped shell path
Summary
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.
Severity
4.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-07 15:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
python-pillow Pillow Affected: < 12.3.0
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