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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-71513 EUVD-2026-64296GHSA-5gh2-94qg-qppqPYSEC-2026-3867

NLTK 3.10.0 through 3.10.2 Remote Code Execution via AllowlistUnpickler Dotted-Name Bypass

Published Aug 22, 2026 · Updated Aug 27, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

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 allowlisted namespace. Attackers can craft untrusted transition-parser models that execute arbitrary commands when TransitionParser.parse loads the model through allowlisted_pickle_load.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nltk nltk 3.10.0 – < 3.10.3 3.10.3

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 nltk 3.10.3-1 —
Debian 13 nltk No fix yet —
Debian 12 nltk No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 nltk No fix yet —
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS nltk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS nltk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS nltk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS nltk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS nltk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS nltk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS nltk No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-nltk 3.10.3-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11587-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling open-webui 0.11.3-r1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI nltk >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.3 3.10.3 GHSA-5gh2-94qg-qppq

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