CRITICAL 9.3 NVD
CVE-2026-71428
The unstructured library provides open-source components for ingesting and pre-processing images and text documents, such as PDFs, HTML, Word docs, and many mor
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. From 0.4.7 until 0.24.0, the url argument of partition, partition_html, and partition_md is fetched without host validation in unstructured/partition/auto.py, unstructured/partition/html/partition.py, and unstructured/partition/md.py. An attacker who controls that URL can make a server-side ingestion service request loopback addresses, internal HTTP services, or cloud metadata endpoints through direct targets, redirects, or DNS rebinding. The response body is returned as Element text, allowing internal response disclosure, and side-effecting GET endpoints may also be triggered. This issue is fixed in version 0.24.0.
References
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commit/445c95735c4045057f51f399bc04c657751
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/pull/4388
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/releases/tag/0.24.0
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-4mvj-m6j5-pmf7
This critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3 was published on 2026-08-20 via NVD.
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CVE Disclosed2026-08-20 · -1 days ago
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