CVE-2025-53358: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

kotaemon is an open-source RAG-based tool for document comprehension. From versions 0.10.6 and prior, in libs/ktem/ktem/index/file/ui.py, the indexfn method accepts both URLs and local file paths without validation. The pipeline streams these paths directly and stores them, enabling attackers to...