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.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-22"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/11xxx/CVE-2025-11849.json",
"cna_assigner": "snyk"
}{
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0.3.25"
},
{
"fixed": "1.11.0"
},
{
"introduced": "0"
}
]
}