GHSA-cv22-g7mw-8v73: nltk (CVE-2026-71514)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
nltk	PyPI	>=3.9.4, <3.10.3	3.10.3

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

NLTK versions 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 are vulnerable to path traversal in CrubadanCorpusReader. An attacker who controls a corpus package can read files outside the corpus directory through lang_freq, but only files whose names end in -3grams.txt and whose contents parse as token count lines. Upgrade to NLTK 3.10.3, which contains the fix. The source gives few details on the exact conditions beyond this.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
2.0	Low	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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