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CVE-2024-39705

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39705

CGA ID

CGA-68x6-xrv8-8xhw

Severity

Unknown

Description

NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for example, averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

References

  • https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-68x6-xrv8-8xhw
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch
  • https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
  • https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
  • https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706
  • https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-39705

Affected packages

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