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.
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0013
EPSS Percentile
32.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-73
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (2)
pypi/unstructured
0 - 0.18.18PyPI
unstructured/unstructured
< 0.18.18
Published
Feb 04, 2026
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026