UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following Affecting txtai package, versions [,9.0.1)
Threat Intelligence
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- published22 Sept 2025
- disclosed22 Sept 2025
- creditOri Hollander
Introduced: 22 Sep 2025
NewCVE-2025-10854 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade txtai to version 9.0.1 or higher.
Overview
txtai is an All-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following via the validate function due to improper sanitization of symbolic links within the tar file. An attacker can write arbitrary files to any location on the filesystem by including symbolic links within a compressed tar file that is loaded as an embedding index.
Note:
This is only exploitable if txtai is used to load untrusted embedding indices.