CVE-2024-39705
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-502
Deserialization of Untrusted Dat
Publication date:
27/06/2024
Last modified:
15/04/2026
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
9.80
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- 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



