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CVE-2026-12243

Gravedad CVSS v3.1:
ALTA
Tipo:
CWE-22 Limitación incorrecta de nombre de ruta a un directorio restringido (Path Traversal)
Fecha de publicación:
30/06/2026
Última modificación:
30/06/2026

Descripción

*** Pendiente de traducción *** NLTK version 3.9.4 is vulnerable to a path traversal attack due to an incomplete fix for GitHub Issue #3504. The `_UNSAFE_NO_PROTOCOL_RE` regex in `nltk/data.py` checks for literal `../` sequences but fails to account for percent-encoded traversal sequences such as `..%2f`. The `url2pathname()` function decodes these sequences after the validation step, allowing an attacker to bypass the protection. This vulnerability enables an attacker to read arbitrary files accessible to the Python process by controlling the resource name parameter passed to `nltk.data.load()` or `nltk.data.find()`. The issue affects applications that rely on NLTK for resource loading, including NLP web applications, Jupyter notebooks, and CLI tools. The default `pathsec.ENFORCE=False` setting exacerbates the impact by not blocking the file read at the `open()` stage.

Productos y versiones vulnerables

CPE Desde Hasta
cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*