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CVE-2026-81724

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2026-08-27 Modified: 2026-08-31

Description

NLTK before 3.10.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying deeply nested feature-structure input. Attackers can craft trivial payloads with nested brackets that exceed Python's recursion limit and raise an unhandled RecursionError, crashing applications that parse user-supplied feature structures or feature grammars.

Affected Platforms

Nltk Nltk

Weakness Type

CWE-674

References