PYSEC-2026-2236

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-33231
Aliases
GHSA-jm6w-m3j8-898g
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) is a suite of open source Python modules, data sets, and tutorials supporting research and development in Natural Language Processing. In versions 3.9.3 and prior, `nltk.app.wordnet_app` allows unauthenticated remote shutdown of the local WordNet Browser HTTP server when it is started in its default mode. A simple `GET /SHUTDOWN%20THE%20SERVER` request causes the process to terminate immediately via `os._exit(0)`, resulting in a denial of service. Commit bbaae83db86a0f49e00f5b0db44a7254c268de9b patches the issue.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · nltkintroduced 0, fixed 3.9.4

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database