FKIE_CVE-2025-64712

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-04 18:16 - Updated: 2026-02-27 20:30
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The unstructured library provides open-source components for ingesting and pre-processing images and text documents, such as PDFs, HTML, Word docs, and many more. Prior to version 0.18.18, a path traversal vulnerability in the partition_msg function allows an attacker to write or overwrite arbitrary files on the filesystem when processing malicious MSG files with attachments. This issue has been patched in version 0.18.18.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commit/b01d35b2373fd087d2e15162b9c021663c97155dPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-gm8q-m8mv-jj5mMitigation, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
unstructured unstructured *
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