CVE-2025-64712

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published2/4/2026

Last Modified2/27/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

unstructured:unstructured

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22CWE-73

References

https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commit/b01d35b2373fd087d2e15162b9c021663c97155d(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-gm8q-m8mv-jj5m(security-advisories@github.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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