CVE-2026-71513 (GCVE-0-2026-71513)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 13:34 – Updated: 2026-08-22 13:34
VLAI
Title
NLTK 3.10.0 through 3.10.2 Remote Code Execution via AllowlistUnpickler Dotted-Name Bypass
Summary
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in AllowlistUnpickler that validates only the pickle module string and not the global name, allowing attackers to resolve dotted names by attribute traversal to callables outside the allowlisted namespace. Attackers can craft untrusted transition-parser models that execute arbitrary commands when TransitionParser.parse loads the model through allowlisted_pickle_load.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
nltk nltk Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 3.10.3 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2026-08-11 00:00
Credits
Tohirov Fazliddin Mahmud o'g'li
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