CVE-2026-71514 PUBLISHED

NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 Path Traversal via CrubadanCorpusReader pathsec Bypass

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 06.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in CrubadanCorpusReader. _load_lang_ngrams joins the corpus root with crubadan_code, the column-0 value read from the corpus table.txt mapping file, and opens the result with the builtin open() rather than the pathsec-validated opener, so os.path.join discards the root when that value is absolute and the read escapes the corpus directory without the containment check nltk.pathsec applies when ENFORCE is set. An attacker who controls a corpus package can disclose file contents outside the corpus root through lang_freq, limited to paths ending in -3grams.txt whose contents parse as token count lines.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2

Product Status

Vendor nltk
Product nltk
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.9.4 to 3.10.3 (excl.)
  • Version 3.10.3 is unaffected

Credits

  • Tohirov Fazliddin Mahmud o'g'li finder

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE