GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch
ntlk unsafe deserialization vulnerability
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2024-39705
- Aliases
- PYSEC-2024-167
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · nltk | introduced 0, fixed 3.9 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39705 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522 WEB
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266 WEB
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/441aecb7d33014bd08672232c6c8bb69c2ceaba2 WEB
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk PACKAGE
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nltk/PYSEC-2024-167.yaml WEB
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |