GHSA-CGVX-9447-VCCH
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-28 00:33 – Updated: 2025-01-21 18:28NLTK 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.
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"name": "nltk"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.9"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-39705"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-300",
"CWE-502"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-06-28T21:11:25Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2024-06-27T22:15:10Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "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.",
"id": "GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch",
"modified": "2025-01-21T18:28:57Z",
"published": "2024-06-28T00:33:31Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39705"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/441aecb7d33014bd08672232c6c8bb69c2ceaba2"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/nltk/nltk"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nltk/PYSEC-2024-167.yaml"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "ntlk unsafe deserialization vulnerability"
}
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