# CVE-2026-71428: unstructured: Server-Side Request Forgery in the URL-based partitioning

- Also known as: GHSA-4MVJ-M6J5-PMF7, PYSEC-2026-3930
- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.24.0
- Published: 2026-08-20 · Updated: 2026-08-25

## Affected

- Unstructured-IO unstructured: from 0.4.7, fixed in 0.24.0
- unstructured (PyPI): from 0.4.7, fixed in 0.24.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unstructured-IO unstructured, unstructured, upgrade to a fixed version (0.24.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-4mvj-m6j5-pmf7
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/pull/4388
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commit/445c95735c4045057f51f399bc04c657751923bd
- https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/releases/tag/0.24.0

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