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CVE-2025-64712 (GCVE-0-2025-64712)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-04 17:34 – Updated: 2026-02-04 19:24
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Title
Unstructured has Path Traversal via Malicious MSG Attachment that Allows Arbitrary File Write
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.
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
  • CWE-73 - External Control of File Name or Path
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Impacted products
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