CVE-2025-64712CRITICAL 9.8EPSS p44.8%
CVE-2025-64712CVE-2025-64712
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.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 9.8 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.62% probability of exploitation · percentile 44.8% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2026-02-04 |
| Last modified | 2026-02-27 |
Underlying weaknesses· 2
References
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')cwe-22 | 0% | live |
| Weakness | External Control of File Name or Pathcwe-73 | 0% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.