UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following Affecting mcp-markdownify-server package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MCPMARKDOWNIFYSERVER-17817927
  • published5 Jul 2026
  • disclosed5 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-14699  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-61  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mcp-markdownify-server.

Overview

mcp-markdownify-server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that converts various file types and web content to Markdown format. It provides a set of tools to transform PDFs, images, audio files, web pages, and more into easily readable and shareable Markdown text.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following via the assertPathAllowed function. An attacker can access unauthorized files by exploiting symlink traversal when manipulating local file paths.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1