SCA: security update for unstructured (GHSA-gm8q-m8mv-jj5m)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 437472

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- The unstructured library provides open-source components for ingesting and pre-processing images and text
documents, such as PDFs, HTML, Word docs, and many more. Prior to version 0.18.18, a path traversal
vulnerability in the partition_msg function allows an attacker to write or overwrite arbitrary files on
the filesystem when processing malicious MSG files with attachments. This issue has been patched in
version 0.18.18. (CVE-2025-64712)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gm8q-m8mv-jj5m

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 437472

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/3/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.48

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-64712

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-64712