PT-2026-79559 · Pypi · Nltk

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CVE-2026-62385

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Published

2026-08-22

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Updated

2026-09-08

CVSS v4.0

8.2

High

VectorAV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NLTK versions prior to 3.10.0
Description A path traversal issue exists in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader. This allows attackers to parse XML files located outside the corpus root by providing unsafe selectors or a poisoned index state. The flaw can be exploited through the frame by name(), doc(), lu(), and header() methods using crafted parameters to read arbitrary XML files accessible to the application.
Recommendations Update to version 3.10.0 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-62385
GHSA-568F-PV23-39P4
GHSA-QP76-PQ9F-GR9M
PYSEC-2026-3728

Affected Products

Nltk