CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-65915

7.1 HIGH Published 2026-08-22 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-08-22
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-284

Description

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a logic bug in FileSystemPathPointer.open() where the sandbox validation check compares a normalized path against itself, making the security check permanently inert. Attackers can pass file:// URLs to nltk.data.load() to read arbitrary files accessible to the process user, including credentials and configuration files.

Affected configurations

• nltk nltk (< 3.10.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References