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High 7.0
NLTK through 3.10.3 Path Traversal via WekaClassifier Model Path
NLTK through 3.10.3 contains a path traversal vulnerability in WekaClassifier that allows attackers to bypass nltk.pathsec containment by supplying unvalidated model paths. Attackers controlling the model_filename or model argument can make the weka JVM write…
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Medium —
NLTK: Uncontrolled resource consumption in RecursiveDescentParser via ambiguous or left-recursive grammars
`nltk.parse.RecursiveDescentParser` (and `SteppingRecursiveDescentParser`) enumerate parses top-down with no bound on the number of recursive steps. A small, crafted context-free grammar makes a short input consume unbounded CPU (and/or exhaust the Python rec…
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High 7.1
NLTK before 3.10.3 Hardlink File Overwrite via downloader
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a filesystem containment bypass vulnerability in the Downloader.download and Downloader.incr_download methods that allows attackers to overwrite files outside the install root through pre-existing hardlinks. Attackers with …
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High 7.0
NLTK through 3.10.3 Path Traversal via Model-Artifact APIs
NLTK through 3.10.3 contains a path traversal vulnerability in model-artifact APIs that bypass pathsec enforcement by using raw file operations on caller-controlled paths. Attackers can read or write files outside allowed sandbox roots through TransitionParse…
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Low 3.7
NLTK before 3.10.3 Regular Expression Denial of Service via Pl196xCorpusReader
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Pl196xCorpusReader that allows attackers to cause quadratic CPU consumption by supplying malformed TEI blocks with many unmatched opening tags. Attackers can exploit lazy rege…
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Medium 5.3
NLTK before 3.10.3 Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursion
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying deeply nested feature-structure input. Attackers can craft trivial payloads…
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Low 3.7
NLTK before 3.10.3 Quadratic CPU Exhaustion via XMLCorpusView
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment() that rescans accumulated XML fragments on every 1 KiB block read. Attackers can provide malformed XML corpus files to cause severe CPU consumpti…
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High 7.5
nltk PorterStemmer before 3.10.3 Quadratic-time DoS
nltk PorterStemmer in versions <= 3.10.2 (fixed in 3.10.3) contains an inefficient-algorithmic-complexity denial of service in PorterStemmer.stem(). The _is_consonant() helper walks backward over the entire run of trailing 'y' characters on every call, and _m…
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Medium 5.9
NLTK 3.10.2 Regular Expression Denial of Service via tgrep
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the tgrep module. The _tgrep_node_action function compiles user-supplied regular expressions embedded in /regex/ pattern nodes and executes them via re.search against …
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High 7.5
NLTK before 3.10.0 ReDoS via Text.findall() unvalidated regex
NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Text.findall() and TokenSearcher.findall() methods that accept user-supplied regular expressions without validation or timeout. Attackers can supply crafted regex patt…
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Medium 5.9
NLTK before 3.10.3 Path Traversal via Symlink Bypass
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a path traversal vulnerability in corpus readers that reopen root-derived paths using built-in open() instead of nltk.pathsec.open(), allowing symlinks to escape trusted roots. Attackers who stage symlinked corpus files und…
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High 8.2
NLTK 3.10.2 Path Traversal via corpus-reader constructors
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a path sandbox bypass vulnerability in corpus-reader constructors that allows attackers to read files outside the intended data root. Attackers can supply arbitrary corpus root paths to LinThesaurusCorpusReader and PanLexLi…
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Critical 9.8
NLTK before 3.10.3 JVM Argument Injection via Per-Call Options
NLTK before 3.10.3 fails to validate JVM options passed through the per-call options parameter in the java() function, allowing attackers to inject dangerous JVM flags. Attackers can supply malicious options like -agentpath, -javaagent, or @argfile to Stanfor…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-79657 Public exploit
NLTK before 3.10.3 Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a remote code execution vulnerability in allowlisted pickle loaders that trust entire module namespaces instead of specific safe callables. Attackers can craft malicious pickle payloads invoking dangerous in-namespace funct…
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Critical 9.6
NLTK before 3.10.0 Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization
NLTK before 3.10.0 (affected versions <=3.9.4) contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability in the TransitionParser.parse() method (nltk/parse/transitionparser.py). The method calls pickle_load() with the default restricted=False, routing deseriali…
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High 7.5
NLTK before 3.10.3 SSRF Protection Bypass via Proxy
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability in nltk.pathsec.urlopen (and callers nltk.data.load, nltk.downloader.Downloader.index/download) when an HTTP proxy is configured. pathsec.urlopen validates the requested hostname locally,…
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High 7.8
NLTK before 3.10.3 Arbitrary Code Execution via Graphviz dot Binary
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 fail to use validated absolute paths when invoking the Graphviz dot binary in dependencygraph.dot2img and AlignedSent._repr_svg_, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious dot binary in the search path or …
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High 7.5
NLTK before 3.10.3 Entity Expansion DoS via ElementTree
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memo…
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Medium 6.2
NLTK before 3.9.4 Symlink Escape via CorpusReader
NLTK versions before 3.9.4 contain a symlink escape vulnerability in CorpusReader.open() that allows local attackers to read arbitrary files outside the corpus root. The vulnerability exists because path validation is lexical and does not account for symlink …
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High 7.5
NLTK before 3.9.4 Denial of Service via JSONTaggedDecoder
NLTK versions before 3.9.4 contain an unbounded recursion vulnerability in JSONTaggedDecoder.decode_obj() that allows attackers to cause denial of service by supplying deeply nested JSON structures. Attackers can craft JSON payloads exceeding the recursion li…
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Medium 6.5
NLTK before 3.10.0 Arbitrary File Read via FileSystemPathPointer
NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a logic bug in FileSystemPathPointer.open() where the sandbox validation check compares a normalized path against itself, making the security check permanently inert. Attackers can pass file:// URLs to nltk.data.load() to r…
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High 7.5
NLTK StreamBackedCorpusView Bypasses pathsec.ENFORCE Arbitrary File Read
NLTK before 3.10.0 contains an arbitrary local file read vulnerability in StreamBackedCorpusView that bypasses pathsec.ENFORCE by calling builtins.open() directly instead of pathsec.open(). Attackers who control the fileid argument can read arbitrary local fi…
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Medium 5.3
NLTK before 3.10.0 SSRF via DNS Resolution Failure
NLTK before 3.10.0 (affected versions <= 3.9.4) contains a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the validate_network_url() function in nltk/pathsec.py. The _resolve_hostname() helper catches OSError and ValueError during socket.getaddrinfo() an…
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High 7.5
NLTK before 3.10.0 Insecure Default Configuration in pathsec.py
NLTK versions before 3.10.0 default to ENFORCE=False in pathsec.py, causing all security validation functions to emit warnings instead of raising exceptions. Attackers can bypass path traversal and pickle deserialization protections by exploiting the disabled…
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Medium 5.9
NLTK 3.9.4 Path Traversal via FrameNet and NKJP Readers
NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader that allows attackers to parse XML files outside the corpus root by supplying unsafe selectors or poisoned index state. Attackers can exploit frame…
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High 7.5
NLTK FramenetCorpusReader Symlink Sandbox Bypass before 3.10.2
NLTK versions before 3.10.2 contain a symlink-based sandbox bypass in FramenetCorpusReader that allows attackers to read arbitrary XML files outside the corpus root. Attackers can place symlinks with names containing no path separators inside the corpus subdi…
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Medium 5.5
nltk IPIPANCorpusReader Symlink Arbitrary File Read
nltk versions before 3.10.2 contain a symlink-based arbitrary file read vulnerability in IPIPANCorpusReader methods that bypass nltk.pathsec validation entirely. Attackers can place a symlink in the corpus root directory and read arbitrary files accessible to…
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Low 2.5
NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 Path Traversal via CrubadanCorpusReader pathsec Bypass
NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in CrubadanCorpusReader. _load_lang_ngrams joins the corpus root with crubadan_code, the column-0 value read from the corpus table.txt mapping file, and opens the result with the builtin open()…
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High 8.8
NLTK 3.10.0 through 3.10.2 Remote Code Execution via AllowlistUnpickler Dotted-Name Bypass
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in AllowlistUnpickler that validates only the pickle module string and not the global name, allowing attackers to resolve dotted names by attribute traversal to callables outside the allowliste…
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High 7.5
NLTK TweetTokenizer URL Pattern Backtracks Catastrophically on Naked-Domain-Like Input
The URLS regular expression in nltk/tokenize/casual.py, compiled into TweetTokenizer.WORD_RE and applied by TweetTokenizer.tokenize, contains a naked-domain branch whose domain-label prefix [a-z0-9]+(?:[.\-][a-z0-9]+)* is unbounded. Input consisting of many a…
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Low 3.7
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in nltk/nltk
A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in nltk/nltk versions 3.9.4 and the current develop branch. The `nltk.pathsec.validate_network_url()` function, intended to prevent SSRF by rejecting internal network addresses, fails to reject IPs in …
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Medium 5.3
Improper Access Control in nltk/nltk
A vulnerability in `nltk.downloader` in nltk/nltk versions <= 3.9.4 allows for cross-package resource and model poisoning. The downloader extracts package archives into shared namespaces such as `corpora/` and `taggers/` instead of package-isolated roots, and…
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Medium 5.3
Improper Input Validation in nltk/nltk
In nltk version 3.9.4, the `nltk.downloader.Downloader._download_package()` function writes downloaded package bytes to disk and may extract them before enforcing SHA-256 or MD5 checksum validation. This allows an attacker to tamper with the package response …
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High 7.5
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): ReDoS in NLTK ReviewsCorpusReader FEATURES regex
### Summary `ReviewsCorpusReader` extracts feature annotations of the form *label* followed by a bracketed signed digit (e.g. a label then `[+2]`) from each review line, using the module-level `FEATURES` regex. The feature-label sub-pattern is unbounded — an …
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High 7.5
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): Path Traversal in NKJPCorpusReader leads to Arbitrary File Read and bypasses the nltk.pathsec sandbox (ENFORCE=True)
### Summary A path-traversal vulnerability in `NKJPCorpusReader` allows an attacker who can influence the `fileids` argument of its public read methods (`header`, `raw`, `words`, `sents`, `tagged_words`) to read files outside the corpus root. The reader build…
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High 7.5
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) has path traversal in FramenetCorpusReader.frame() that allows arbitrary XML file read, bypassing the nltk.pathsec sandbox (ENFORCE=True)
### Summary `FramenetCorpusReader.frame(name)` interpolates a caller-supplied frame name into an XML file path that is read with the builtin `open()`, bypassing `CorpusReader.open()` and the `nltk.pathsec` sandbox — including strict `ENFORCE=True` mode. A `..…
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High 7.8
NLTK < 3.9.3 Eval Injection via collocations.py Command-Line Arguments
NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker who controls command-line arguments to execute arbitrary Python code. When collocations.py is invoked directl…
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High 7.8
Untrusted JAR Code Execution in Multiple Stanford Interface Classes in nltk/nltk
In nltk/nltk versions 3.9.3 and earlier, five Stanford interface classes (StanfordPOSTagger, StanfordNERTagger, StanfordParser, StanfordDependencyParser, and StanfordNeuralDependencyParser) are vulnerable to untrusted JAR code execution. These classes accept …
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High 7.5
NLTK: URL-Encoded Path Traversal in nltk.data.load() Allows Arbitrary Local File Read
NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) is a suite of open source Python modules, data sets, and tutorials supporting research and development in Natural Language Processing. Prior to 3.10.0-rc1, nltk.data.load() in NLTK is vulnerable to path traversal via URL-encode…
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High 7.5
Unauthenticated Denial of Service in nltk.app.wordnet_app
A vulnerability in `nltk.app.wordnet_app` up to version 3.9.3 allows unauthenticated remote shutdown of the local WordNet Browser HTTP server when started in its default mode. The server listens on all interfaces and processes a specific unauthenticated GET r…