Is pillow safe to use?

pillow has 3 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (12.2.0). DepScope rates its health at 68/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of pillow?

The latest version of pillow is 12.2.0, released 2026-04-01.

Does pillow have known vulnerabilities?

Yes. pillow has 3 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/pypi/pillow for details.

Is pillow deprecated?

No, pillow is actively maintained. Latest release: 12.2.0 (2026-04-01).

What are alternatives to pillow?

Popular alternatives to pillow in PyPI include: typing-extensions, requests, charset_normalizer, cryptography, aiobotocore.

What license does pillow use?

pillow is licensed under MIT-CMU.

pillow

pypiv12.2.0

Python Imaging Library (fork)

License MIT-CMU106 versions26 deps

python-pillow/Pillow

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Health

update required

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Update to >= 9887544fafcd13cc8afcfa0c6d0f2e6facc1a8b8 to fix known vulnerabilities

1 high severity vulnerabilities

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

20/25

security

15/15

maturity

8/15

community

Vulnerabilities

1 high2 low

Advisories (3)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
high	A-299477569	libwebp: OOB write in BuildHuffmanTable	1.1.2-0.20250406010349-76805d5a8860
unknown	OSV-2022-1074	Invalid-free in _dealloc	f7363c1091c70356d92e56abfca6b65bef9e7b26
unknown	OSV-2022-715	Segv on unknown address in jpeg_read_scanlines	9887544fafcd13cc8afcfa0c6d0f2e6facc1a8b8

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

7.8/10

strong

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

5

Contributors (12m)

5

Primary author dominance

56%

GitHub stars

13,532

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.53high

Download trend

stable(+0.2%)

Publish security

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