CVE-2024-39705

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Jun 27, 2024
Updated: Sep 15, 2024
Reserved: Jun 27, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706

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