What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-64712?

CVE-2025-64712 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical). CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.1%.

Which versions of Unstructured are affected by CVE-2025-64712?

A critical vulnerability in the unstructured library could allow attackers to compromise systems processing documents (PDFs, Word files, HTML, images), potentially leading to unauthorized data access…. A patch is available.

How to fix or mitigate CVE-2025-64712?

Within 24 hours: Identify all systems and applications using the unstructured library and assess exposure. Within 7 days: Apply the available vendor patch to all affected systems and validate deployment. Within 30 days: Conduct forensic review of document processing logs for signs of exploitation and implement enhanced monitoring on document ingestion pipelines.

Unstructured CVE-2025-64712

CRITICAL

Path Traversal (CWE-22)

2026-02-04 security-advisories@github.com

GHSA-gm8q-m8mv-jj5m

Path Traversal Unstructured

9.8

CVSS 3.1 · GitHub Advisory

Severity by source

GitHub Advisory PRIMARY

9.8 CRITICAL

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Primary rating from GitHub Advisory · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorGitHub Advisory

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Lifecycle Timeline

Analysis Generated

Mar 12, 2026 - 21:54 vuln.today

Patch released

Feb 27, 2026 - 20:30 nvd

Patch available

CVE Published

Feb 04, 2026 - 18:16 nvd

CRITICAL 9.8

Blast Radius

ecosystem impact

† from your stack dependencies † transitive graph · vuln.today resolves 4-path depth

1 pypi packages depend on unstructured (1 direct, 0 indirect)

Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 0.18.18.

DescriptionGitHub Advisory

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.

AnalysisAI

The unstructured Python library for document ingestion has a path traversal vulnerability allowing arbitrary file read/write during document processing.

Technical ContextAI

The unstructured library has a CWE-22 path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to read or write arbitrary files on the server when processing crafted documents.