FKIE_CVE-2026-54293

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-22 19:17 - Updated: 2026-06-30 03:21
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) is a suite of open source Python modules, data sets, and tutorials supporting research and development in Natural Language Processing. Prior to 3.10.0-rc1, nltk.data.load() in NLTK is vulnerable to path traversal via URL-encoded path separators and traversal segments when using the nltk: URL scheme. The unsafe-path regex check is performed before url2pathname() decodes the %xx sequences (a classic decode-after-check / TOCTOU-style flaw), allowing an attacker to bypass the protection documented in NLTK's SECURITY.md and read arbitrary files from the filesystem. While literal traversal strings such as ../../../etc/passwd are correctly blocked, encoded variants such as %2fetc%2fpasswd, %2e%2e%2f..., and ..%2f..%2f slip past the regex and are subsequently decoded into a real filesystem path. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.10.0-rc1.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/3575Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-p4gq-832x-fm9vExploit, Vendor Advisory
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-54293
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491486
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-p4gq-832x-fm9vExploit, Vendor Advisory
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46chttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-54293.json
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nltk nltk *
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