GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-cv22-g7mw-8v73 NLTK CrubadanCorpusReader path traversal allows arbitrary file disclosure
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-71514
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- nltk
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-02
Affected packages
• PyPI nltk: >= 3.9.4, < 3.10.3 → fixed in 3.10.3
Description
NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in CrubadanCorpusReader. _load_lang_ngrams joins the corpus root with crubadan_code, the column-0 value read from the corpus table.txt mapping file, and opens the result with the builtin open() rather than the pathsec-validated opener, so os.path.join discards the root when that value is absolute and the read escapes the corpus directory without the containment check nltk.pathsec applies when ENFORCE is set. An attacker who controls a corpus package can disclose file contents outside the corpus root through lang_freq, limited to paths ending in -3grams.txt whose contents parse as token count lines.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-71514 NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in CrubadanCorpusReader. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71514 advisory
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/10d34b3f4fe3fec74b76527a409eb0acbac2e8ab web
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk package
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/blob/v3.10.2/nltk/corpus/reader/crubadan.py#L90-L98 web
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/releases/tag/v3.10.3 web
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-through-path-traversal-via-crubadancorpusreader-pathsec-bypass web