CVE-2025-64712: Unstructured has Path Traversal via Malicious MSG Attachment that Allows Arbitrary File Write

February 3, 2026

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.

References

github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured
github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commit/b01d35b2373fd087d2e15162b9c021663c97155d
github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-gm8q-m8mv-jj5m
github.com/advisories/GHSA-gm8q-m8mv-jj5m
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64712

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