CVE-2025-71408

NLTK < 3.9.3 Eval Injection via collocations.py Command-Line Arguments

State
Published
Severity
8.5 High
Published
Jul 24, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Reserved
Jul 24, 2026

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Description

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 directly, the __main__ block passes command-line arguments directly to eval() as suffixes of BigramAssocMeasures without allowlist validation or sanitization, enabling an attacker to supply a Python expression that escapes the intended attribute lookup and executes arbitrary code including OS commands via the os module.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.5 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-95 Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ntlkntlk
  • before 3.9.3Affected

References

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