GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-mr7p-25v2-35wr NLTK Vulnerable To Path Traversal

HIGH Published 2019-08-23 Modified 2024-10-07 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-14751
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
nltk
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22
Reviewed
2019-08-23

Affected packages

• PyPI nltk: < 3.4.5 → fixed in 3.4.5

Description

NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a `../` (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-14751 NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash)… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References