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Critical severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 4, 2026· Updated Feb 4, 2026

Unstructured has Path Traversal via Malicious MSG Attachment that Allows Arbitrary File Write

CVE-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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
unstructuredPyPI
< 0.18.180.18.18

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