CVE-2024-39705 (GCVE-0-2024-39705)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-15 19:27
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nltk nltk Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.8.1 (custom)
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