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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0688

NIXPKGS-2026-0688
published 3 months ago
Permalink CVE-2026-33236
8.1 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Required (R)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): None (N)
  • Integrity (I): High (H)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Required (R)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
updated 3 months ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion 3 months ago
  • @LeSuisse accepted 3 months ago
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub 3 months ago
NLTK has a Downloader Path Traversal Vulnerability (AFO) - Arbitrary File Overwrite

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, the NLTK downloader does not validate the `subdir` and `id` attributes when processing remote XML index files. Attackers can control a remote XML index server to provide malicious values containing path traversal sequences (such as `../`), which can lead to arbitrary directory creation, arbitrary file creation, and arbitrary file overwrite. Commit 89fe2ec2c6bae6e2e7a46dad65cc34231976ed8a patches the issue.

Affected products

nltk
  • ==<= 3.9.3

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Package maintainers

Upstream advisory: https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-469j-vmhf-r6v7
Upstream patch: https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/89fe2ec2c6bae6e2e7a46dad65cc34231976ed8a