Search Results (5 CVEs found)

CVE Vendors Products Updated CVSS v3.1
CVE-2025-14009 1 Nltk 1 Nltk 2026-02-19 8.8 High
A critical vulnerability exists in the NLTK downloader component of nltk/nltk, affecting all versions. The _unzip_iter function in nltk/downloader.py uses zipfile.extractall() without performing path validation or security checks. This allows attackers to craft malicious zip packages that, when downloaded and extracted by NLTK, can execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability arises because NLTK assumes all downloaded packages are trusted and extracts them without validation. If a malicious package contains Python files, such as __init__.py, these files are executed automatically upon import, leading to remote code execution. This issue can result in full system compromise, including file system access, network access, and potential persistence mechanisms.
CVE-2021-43854 1 Nltk 1 Nltk 2024-11-21 7.5 High
NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) is a suite of open source Python modules, data sets, and tutorials supporting research and development in Natural Language Processing. Versions prior to 3.6.5 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks. The vulnerability is present in PunktSentenceTokenizer, sent_tokenize and word_tokenize. Any users of this class, or these two functions, are vulnerable to the ReDoS attack. In short, a specifically crafted long input to any of these vulnerable functions will cause them to take a significant amount of execution time. If your program relies on any of the vulnerable functions for tokenizing unpredictable user input, then we would strongly recommend upgrading to a version of NLTK without the vulnerability. For users unable to upgrade the execution time can be bounded by limiting the maximum length of an input to any of the vulnerable functions. Our recommendation is to implement such a limit.
CVE-2021-3842 3 Debian, Fedoraproject, Nltk 3 Debian Linux, Fedora, Nltk 2024-11-21 7.5 High
nltk is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CVE-2021-3828 1 Nltk 1 Nltk 2024-11-21 7.5 High
nltk is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CVE-2019-14751 1 Nltk 1 Nltk 2024-11-21 N/A
NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.