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CVE-2026-71513
Published:August 22, 2026
Updated:August 25, 2026
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.
Affected Packages
nltk (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=2.0.3 <3.10.3
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.10.3
https://github.com/nltk/nltk.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v3.10.0 <v3.10.3
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v3.10.3
nltk (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.8 <3.10.3
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.10.3
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
EPSS
Base Score:
0.78