psd-tools is a Python package for working with Adobe Photoshop PSD files. Prior to version 1.12.2, when a PSD file contains malformed RLE-compressed image data (e.g. a literal run that extends past the expected row size), decode_rle() raises ValueError which propagated all the way to the user, crashing psd.composite() and psd-tools export. decompress() already had a fallback that replaces failed channels with black pixels when result is None, but it never triggered because the ValueError from decode_rle() was not caught. The fix in version 1.12.2 wraps the decode_rle() call in a try/except so the existing fallback handles the error gracefully.
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-24p2-j2jr-386w psd-tools: Compression module has unguarded zlib decompression, missing dimension validation, and hardening gaps
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Description psd-tools is a Python package for working with Adobe Photoshop PSD files. Prior to version 1.12.2, when a PSD file contains malformed RLE-compressed image data (e.g. a literal run that extends past the expected row size), decode_rle() raises ValueError which propagated all the way to the user, crashing psd.composite() and psd-tools export. decompress() already had a fallback that replaces failed channels with black pixels when result is None, but it never triggered because the ValueError from decode_rle() was not caught. The fix in version 1.12.2 wraps the decode_rle() call in a try/except so the existing fallback handles the error gracefully.
Title psd-tools: Compression module has unguarded zlib decompression, missing dimension validation, and hardening gaps
Weaknesses CWE-190
CWE-409
CWE-617
CWE-704
CWE-755
CWE-789
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-26T15:17:34.807Z

Reserved: 2026-02-24T02:31:33.267Z

Link: CVE-2026-27809

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-26T00:16:26.233

Modified: 2026-02-26T00:16:26.233

Link: CVE-2026-27809

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Updated: 2026-02-26T13:10:28Z