CVE-2024-39705
CRITICALNLTK < 3.9 - Remote Code Execution via Pickle Deserialization
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.1079
EPSS Percentile
93.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-502
Status
published
Products (1)
pypi/nltk
0 - 3.9PyPI
Published
Jun 27, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026