Intel

AIKIDO-2025-10088

markitdown is vulnerable to Path Traversal

Path Traversal Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.

85

High Risk

This Affects:

pythonmarkitdown
0.0.1a2 - 0.0.1a3
Fixed in 0.0.1a4

TL;DR

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to path traversal attacks when a user uploads a malicious ZIP file using the ZipConverter::convert method. An attacker can craft a ZIP archive containing files with directory traversal sequences (e.g., ../), potentially allowing them to write files outside the intended extraction directory.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

markitdown is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions 0.0.1a2 - 0.0.1a3.

How to fix this

Upgrade the markitdown library to the patch version.