CVE-2026-71514

Published Aug 22, 2026

Last updated 2 days ago

Overview

Description
NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in CrubadanCorpusReader. _load_lang_ngrams joins the corpus root with crubadan_code, the column-0 value read from the corpus table.txt mapping file, and opens the result with the builtin open() rather than the pathsec-validated opener, so os.path.join discards the root when that value is absolute and the read escapes the corpus directory without the containment check nltk.pathsec applies when ENFORCE is set. An attacker who controls a corpus package can disclose file contents outside the corpus root through lang_freq, limited to paths ending in -3grams.txt whose contents parse as token count lines.
Source
disclosure@vulncheck.com
NVD status
Received

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
2
Impact score
-
Exploitability score
-
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Severity
LOW

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
2.5
Impact score
1.4
Exploitability score
1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Severity
LOW

Weaknesses

disclosure@vulncheck.com
CWE-22

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