CVE-2024-39705

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.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-502

References

• 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://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