CVE-2025-71408 PUBLISHED

NLTK < 3.9.3 Eval Injection via collocations.py Command-Line Arguments

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 24.07.2026 Published: 24.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker who controls command-line arguments to execute arbitrary Python code. When collocations.py is invoked directly, the main block passes command-line arguments directly to eval() as suffixes of BigramAssocMeasures without allowlist validation or sanitization, enabling an attacker to supply a Python expression that escapes the intended attribute lookup and executes arbitrary code including OS commands via the os module.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.5

Product Status

Vendor ntlk
Product ntlk
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 3.9.3 (excl.)

Credits

  • Yunus AYDIN finder

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection') CWE