CVE 9.8 CRITICAL

Unstructured has Path Traversal via Malicious MSG Attachment that Allows Arbitrary File Write_CVE-2025-64712

9.8 / 10
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-64712
Source GitHub_M
Published Feb 4, 2026 at 17:34

Affected Product

Vendor Unstructured-IO
Product unstructured
Version < 0.18.18
Affected Versions Unstructured-IO unstructured < 0.18.18

CWE Classification

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