CVE-2026-71513

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

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Aug 22, 2026
Updated
Aug 27, 2026
Reserved
Aug 6, 2026

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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.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

ProductVersions
nltknltk
  • 3.10.0 to before 3.10.3Affected
  • 3.10.3Not affected

References

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