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Critical · 9.3 CVE-2025-11849 EUVD-2025-34861GHSA-rmjr-87wv-gf87PYSEC-2026-1603

Mammoth is vulnerable to Directory Traversal

Published Oct 17, 2025 · Updated Oct 17, 2025 · Assigned by snyk

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— mammoth 0.3.25 – < 1.11.0, < 1.11.0 1.11.0
— org.zwobble.mammoth:mammoth < 1.11.0 1.11.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.zwobble.mammoth:mammoth < 1.11.0 1.11.0 GHSA-rmjr-87wv-gf87
npm mammoth >= 0.3.25, < 1.11.0 1.11.0 GHSA-rmjr-87wv-gf87
NuGet Mammoth < 1.11.0 1.11.0 GHSA-rmjr-87wv-gf87
PyPI mammoth >= 0.3.25, < 1.11.0 1.11.0 PYSEC-2026-1603

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