CVE-2025-71427
Description
Office-PowerPoint-MCP-Server through 2.0.7 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows MCP callers to write and read files outside the working directory by supplying absolute paths or ../ sequences. Attackers can steer an AI agent via prompt injection to abuse save_presentation, open_presentation, or manage_image output_path to overwrite any server-writable file or load external files.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/GongRzhe/Office-PowerPoint-MCP-Server
- https://github.com/GongRzhe/Office-PowerPoint-MCP-Server/blob/3631ba2ec0c24504476f78bf74d329c9be11caaa/tools/presentation_tools.py#L127-L141
- https://github.com/GongRzhe/Office-PowerPoint-MCP-Server/blob/3631ba2ec0c24504476f78bf74d329c9be11caaa/utils/presentation_utils.py#L61-L73
- https://github.com/GongRzhe/Office-PowerPoint-MCP-Server/pull/33
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/office-powerpoint-mcp-server-through-2.0.7-path-traversal-via-save-presentation-and-manage-image
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.