PYSEC-2024-167

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view advisory published 2024-06-27Licence: CC-BY-4.0

NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for example, averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2024-39705US	—	1.35% (71st)	—	2024-06-27
NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for ex…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcchADVISORY
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522REPORT
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266REPORT
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706WEB

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