GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-cv22-g7mw-8v73 NLTK CrubadanCorpusReader path traversal allows arbitrary file disclosure

LOW Published 2026-08-22 Modified 2026-09-02 Official page ↗
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

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