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.

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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.
Title Pillow: WindowsViewer.get_command() OS command injection via unescaped shell path
Weaknesses CWE-78
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-07-06T18:44:38.441Z

Reserved: 2026-06-17T14:40:28.381Z

Link: CVE-2026-55798

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Updated: 2026-07-06T20:45:15Z

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