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Issue

Snyk Link: SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-5918878
Issue Type: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Priority: Critical
Summary: Pillow 8.3.2 contains a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863) in libwebp that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted WebP files. Fixed by upgrading to Pillow 10.4.0.

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  • Upgraded pillow from 8.3.2 to 10.4.0 in manual-testing-sandbox/requirements.txt

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Snyk Issue Details
{
  "vulnerability": {
    "id": "5fbfa035-8cec-4771-9f55-0b5f767e798e",
    "title": "Heap-based Buffer Overflow",
    "severity": "critical",
    "url": "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-5918878",
    "description": "Heap-based Buffer Overflow",
    "cvssScore": 909,
    "packageName": "NVD",
    "isUpgradable": false,
    "isPatchable": false,
    "fixedIn": [],
    "upgradePath": []
  },
  "project": {
    "id": "19fa7992-fc8c-4050-aa18-2600afc162f8",
    "name": "continuedev/continue:manual-testing-sandbox/requirements.txt",
    "origin": "github",
    "type": "pip"
  },
  "remediationHints": {
    "canUpgrade": false,
    "canPatch": false,
    "upgradeToVersions": [],
    "upgradePath": []
  }
}

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Summary by cubic

Upgraded Pillow from 8.3.2 to 10.0.1 to patch the critical libwebp heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2023-4863) flagged by Snyk. This reduces RCE risk when processing WebP files in the manual testing sandbox.

  • Dependencies
    • manual-testing-sandbox/requirements.txt: pillow 8.3.2 → 10.0.1

Written for commit fec2bae. Summary will update automatically on new commits.

Upgraded pillow from 8.3.2 to 10.0.1 to address CVE-2023-4863, a critical
heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in WebP image processing.

Co-authored-by: nate <[email protected]>
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@continue continue bot force-pushed the snyk/fix-pillow-heap-buffer-overflow branch from d7ecebe to fec2bae Compare December 2, 2025 23:33
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continue bot commented Dec 2, 2025

This PR only updates a dependency version in the manual-testing-sandbox folder, which is used for local development and debugging only. No documentation updates are needed since this folder is not part of the user-facing product or documented workflows.

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RomneyDa commented Dec 3, 2025

manual testing sandbox is not used

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