CVE-2024-39705 (GCVE-0-2024-39705)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-27 00:00
Modified
2024-09-15 19:27
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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