GHSA-rmjr-87wv-gf87MediumCVSS 9.3

Mammoth is vulnerable to Directory Traversal

Published
October 17, 2025
Last Modified
October 17, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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 products4

  • npm/mammoth:>= 0.3.25, < 1.11.0
  • maven/org.zwobble.mammoth:mammoth:< 1.11.0
  • pip/mammoth:>= 0.3.25, < 1.11.0
  • nuget/Mammoth:< 1.11.0

🔗 References (8)