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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-44022 EUVD-2026-39005GHSA-2j5p-7p5m-cvqrPYSEC-2026-2145

Docling: Potential Path Traversal via LaTeX \includegraphics and \input Commands

Published Jun 24, 2026 · Updated Jun 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats and providing integrations with the generative AI ecosystem. From 2.73.0 until 2.91.0, he LaTeX backend's handling of \includegraphics, \input, and \include commands lacked path containment validation. Attackers could craft malicious LaTeX documents with path traversal sequences to read arbitrary files from the file system accessible to the process, include sensitive files in the converted document output, or potentially access configuration files, credentials, or other sensitive data This vulnerability is fixed in 2.91.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
docling-project docling >= 2.73.0, < 2.91.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI docling >= 2.73.0, < 2.91.0 2.91.0 GHSA-2j5p-7p5m-cvqr

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