mwilliamson/java-mammoth · Security
Mammoth is vulnerable to Directory Traversal
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-rmjr-87wv-gf87
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-11849
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 5.4 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:H/E:P
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.
CWEs
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11849 ↗
- https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/commit/c54aaeb43a7941317c1f3c119ffa92090f988820 ↗
- https://gist.github.com/AudunWA/4d690d9ae5efdafe7cf71d9c2ee90a10 ↗
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-DOTNET-MAMMOTH-13561968 ↗
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGZWOBBLEMAMMOTH-13561969 ↗
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MAMMOTH-13554470 ↗
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-MAMMOTH-13561967 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rmjr-87wv-gf87 ↗