CVE-2024-39705

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NVD

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

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS CVSS_V3

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-4rpm-rh56-9fq5
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch
https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-68x6-xrv8-8xhw
https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-whw8-5gwm-mw58
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

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