GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-848c-c2cx-j7qx NLTK vulnerable to Eval Injection via collocations CLI arguments

HIGH Published 2026-07-25 Modified 2026-08-12 Official page ↗
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