Python

nltk

Latest secure version 3.9.4

Natural Language Toolkit

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Vulnerabilities (Public)

Known vulnerabilities and security issues detected in the extension's dependencies and code.

Vulnerability IDAdvisoryAffected Versions
CVE-2025-14009NLTK has a Zip Slip Vulnerability
Critical
<= 3.9.2
CVE-2024-39705Affected versions of NLTK are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for exam…
Critical
>=0.9,<3.9
CVE-2026-33236Affected versions of the nltk package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite due to improper validation of path components from remote XML index files. The vulnerability exists in nltk/downloader.…
High
<=3.9.2
CVE-2026-33231Affected versions of the nltk package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to missing authentication on a shutdown function in the WordNet Browser HTTP server. In nltk.app.wordnet_app, HTTPSe…
High
<=3.9.3
CVE-2026-0846NLTK has Arbitrary File Read via Absolute Path Input in nltk.util.filestring()
High
< 3.9.3
CVE-2026-0847NLTK has a Path Traversal issue
High
<= 3.9.2
CVE-2021-3842Nltk before 3.6.6 is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity.
High
>=0,<3.6.6
CVE-2021-43854Nltk 3.6.5 includes a fix for CVE-2021-43854: Versions prior to 3.6.5 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks. The vulnerability is present in PunktSentenceTokenizer, se…
High
<3.6.5
CVE-2026-33230Affected versions of the nltk package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper output encoding of user-controlled input. In nltk.app.wordnet_app, requests to the lookup_... route a…
Medium
<=3.9.3
SFTY-20260318-30374Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) has unbounded recursion in JSONTaggedDecoder.decode_obj() may cause DoS
Unknown
<= 3.9.3
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