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CVE-2025-11849: Mammoth is vulnerable to Directory Traversal

October 17, 2025

Versions of the package mammoth from 0.3.25 and before 1.11.0; versions of the package mammoth from 0.3.25 and before 1.11.0; versions of the package mammoth before 1.11.0; versions of the package org.zwobble.mammoth:mammoth before 1.11.0 are vulnerable to Directory Traversal due to the lack of path or file type validation when processing a docx file containing an image with an external link (r:link attribute instead of embedded r:embed). The library resolves the URI to a file path and after reading, the content is encoded as base64 and included in the HTML output as a data URI. An attacker can read arbitrary files on the system where the conversion is performed or cause an excessive resources consumption by crafting a docx file that links to special device files such as /dev/random or /dev/zero.

References

  • gist.github.com/AudunWA/4d690d9ae5efdafe7cf71d9c2ee90a10
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-rmjr-87wv-gf87
  • github.com/mwilliamson/java-mammoth
  • github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/commit/c54aaeb43a7941317c1f3c119ffa92090f988820
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11849
  • security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-DOTNET-MAMMOTH-13561968
  • security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGZWOBBLEMAMMOTH-13561969
  • security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MAMMOTH-13554470
  • security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-MAMMOTH-13561967

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.11.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.11.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.11.0 or above.

Impact 9.3 CRITICAL

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Source file

maven/org.zwobble.mammoth/mammoth/CVE-2025-11849.yml

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