GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-848c-c2cx-j7qx NLTK vulnerable to Eval Injection via collocations CLI arguments
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-71408
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- nltk
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-95
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-12
Affected packages
• PyPI nltk: < 3.9.3 → fixed in 3.9.3
Description
NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker who controls command-line arguments to execute arbitrary Python code. When collocations.py is invoked directly, the __main__ block passes command-line arguments directly to eval() as suffixes of BigramAssocMeasures without allowlist validation or sanitization, enabling an attacker to supply a Python expression that escapes the intended attribute lookup and executes arbitrary code including OS commands via the os module.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-71408 NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-95 Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71408 advisory
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/3465 web
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/66f14096d952ec8f04934f515e027534bd4eb0ac web
- https://aydinnyunus.github.io/2026/06/07/command-injection-nltk-collocations-eval web
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk package
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/releases/tag/3.9.3 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nltk/PYSEC-2026-3657.yaml web
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-eval-injection-via-collocations-py-command-line-arguments web