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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)

Published Oct 17, 2025

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (8)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner snyk
Published Oct 17, 2025
Updated Oct 17, 2025
Reserved Oct 16, 2025
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Oct 17, 2025
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
GHSA-RMJR-87WV-GF87