CVE-2026-54060: Pillow: `FontFile.compile()`: `Image.new()` called without `_decompression_bomb_check()`
PIL/FontFile.py FontFile.compile() assembles per-glyph images into a single combined bitmap using Image.new("1", (xsize, ysize)) without calling Image._decompression_bomb_check(). This is the base-class method shared by both BdfFontFile and PcfFontFile, and it is triggered whenever a loaded font is converted to an ImageFont or saved.
Neither BdfFontFile.BdfFontFile(fp) nor PcfFontFile.PcfFontFile(fp) is registered with Image.register_open(), so Pillow’s standard decompression bomb guard never fires for font objects. The compile step is the final opportunity to check the combined allocation — and it has no check.
Vulnerable code (PIL/FontFile.py lines ~64–92):
def compile(self) -> None:
if self.bitmap:
return
h = w = maxwidth = 0
lines = 1
for glyph in self.glyph: # up to 256 glyph slots
if glyph:
d, dst, src, im = glyph
h = max(h, src[3] - src[1]) # max glyph height — attacker-controlled
w = w + (src[2] - src[0])
if w > WIDTH: # WIDTH = 800
lines += 1
w = src[2] - src[0]
maxwidth = max(maxwidth, w)
xsize = maxwidth # ≤ 800 (capped by WIDTH constant)
ysize = lines * h # ← lines(256) × h(65535) = 16,776,960
if xsize == 0 and ysize == 0:
return
self.ysize = h
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-5x94-69rx-g8h2
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2026-2254.yaml
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/main/docs/releasenotes/12.3.0.rst
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/0a263e6264aa5399988d9acd3bbfbca2ca3ec77d
- github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-5x94-69rx-g8h2
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54060
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