CVE-2024-39705
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-27 00:00
Modified
2024-09-15 19:27
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
Show details on NVD website

To clipboard 

{
   containers: {
      adp: [
         {
            affected: [
               {
                  cpes: [
                     "cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                  ],
                  defaultStatus: "unknown",
                  product: "nltk",
                  vendor: "nltk",
                  versions: [
                     {
                        lessThanOrEqual: "3.8.1",
                        status: "affected",
                        version: "0",
                        versionType: "custom",
                     },
                  ],
               },
            ],
            metrics: [
               {
                  cvssV3_1: {
                     attackComplexity: "LOW",
                     attackVector: "NETWORK",
                     availabilityImpact: "HIGH",
                     baseScore: 9.8,
                     baseSeverity: "CRITICAL",
                     confidentialityImpact: "HIGH",
                     integrityImpact: "HIGH",
                     privilegesRequired: "NONE",
                     scope: "UNCHANGED",
                     userInteraction: "NONE",
                     vectorString: "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                     version: "3.1",
                  },
               },
               {
                  other: {
                     content: {
                        id: "CVE-2024-39705",
                        options: [
                           {
                              Exploitation: "none",
                           },
                           {
                              Automatable: "yes",
                           },
                           {
                              "Technical Impact": "total",
                           },
                        ],
                        role: "CISA Coordinator",
                        timestamp: "2024-06-28T14:53:05.439937Z",
                        version: "2.0.3",
                     },
                     type: "ssvc",
                  },
               },
            ],
            problemTypes: [
               {
                  descriptions: [
                     {
                        cweId: "CWE-502",
                        description: "CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data",
                        lang: "en",
                        type: "CWE",
                     },
                  ],
               },
            ],
            providerMetadata: {
               dateUpdated: "2024-09-15T19:27:36.034Z",
               orgId: "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0",
               shortName: "CISA-ADP",
            },
            title: "CISA ADP Vulnrichment",
         },
         {
            providerMetadata: {
               dateUpdated: "2024-08-19T07:47:43.179Z",
               orgId: "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
               shortName: "CVE",
            },
            references: [
               {
                  tags: [
                     "x_transferred",
                  ],
                  url: "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266",
               },
               {
                  tags: [
                     "x_transferred",
                  ],
                  url: "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522",
               },
               {
                  url: "https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706",
               },
            ],
            title: "CVE Program Container",
         },
      ],
      cna: {
         affected: [
            {
               product: "n/a",
               vendor: "n/a",
               versions: [
                  {
                     status: "affected",
                     version: "n/a",
                  },
               ],
            },
         ],
         descriptions: [
            {
               lang: "en",
               value: "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.",
            },
         ],
         problemTypes: [
            {
               descriptions: [
                  {
                     description: "n/a",
                     lang: "en",
                     type: "text",
                  },
               ],
            },
         ],
         providerMetadata: {
            dateUpdated: "2024-08-26T15:37:28.272218",
            orgId: "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca",
            shortName: "mitre",
         },
         references: [
            {
               url: "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266",
            },
            {
               url: "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522",
            },
            {
               url: "https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706",
            },
         ],
      },
   },
   cveMetadata: {
      assignerOrgId: "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca",
      assignerShortName: "mitre",
      cveId: "CVE-2024-39705",
      datePublished: "2024-06-27T00:00:00",
      dateReserved: "2024-06-27T00:00:00",
      dateUpdated: "2024-09-15T19:27:36.034Z",
      state: "PUBLISHED",
   },
   dataType: "CVE_RECORD",
   dataVersion: "5.1",
   "vulnerability-lookup:meta": {
      nvd: "{\"cve\":{\"id\":\"CVE-2024-39705\",\"sourceIdentifier\":\"cve@mitre.org\",\"published\":\"2024-06-27T22:15:10.543\",\"lastModified\":\"2024-11-21T09:28:15.537\",\"vulnStatus\":\"Awaiting Analysis\",\"cveTags\":[],\"descriptions\":[{\"lang\":\"en\",\"value\":\"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.\"},{\"lang\":\"es\",\"value\":\"NLTK hasta 3.8.1 permite la ejecución remota de código si los paquetes que no son de confianza tienen código Python encurtido y se utiliza la funcionalidad de descarga de paquetes de datos integrada. Esto afecta, por ejemplo, a Averaged_perceptron_tagger y punkt.\"}],\"metrics\":{\"cvssMetricV31\":[{\"source\":\"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0\",\"type\":\"Secondary\",\"cvssData\":{\"version\":\"3.1\",\"vectorString\":\"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H\",\"baseScore\":9.8,\"baseSeverity\":\"CRITICAL\",\"attackVector\":\"NETWORK\",\"attackComplexity\":\"LOW\",\"privilegesRequired\":\"NONE\",\"userInteraction\":\"NONE\",\"scope\":\"UNCHANGED\",\"confidentialityImpact\":\"HIGH\",\"integrityImpact\":\"HIGH\",\"availabilityImpact\":\"HIGH\"},\"exploitabilityScore\":3.9,\"impactScore\":5.9}]},\"weaknesses\":[{\"source\":\"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0\",\"type\":\"Secondary\",\"description\":[{\"lang\":\"en\",\"value\":\"CWE-502\"}]}],\"references\":[{\"url\":\"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706\",\"source\":\"cve@mitre.org\"},{\"url\":\"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706\",\"source\":\"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\"}]}}",
      vulnrichment: {
         containers: "{\"adp\": [{\"title\": \"CVE Program Container\", \"references\": [{\"url\": \"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266\", \"tags\": [\"x_transferred\"]}, {\"url\": \"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522\", \"tags\": [\"x_transferred\"]}, {\"url\": \"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706\"}], \"providerMetadata\": {\"orgId\": \"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108\", \"shortName\": \"CVE\", \"dateUpdated\": \"2024-08-19T07:47:43.179Z\"}}, {\"title\": \"CISA ADP Vulnrichment\", \"metrics\": [{\"cvssV3_1\": {\"scope\": \"UNCHANGED\", \"version\": \"3.1\", \"baseScore\": 9.8, \"attackVector\": \"NETWORK\", \"baseSeverity\": \"CRITICAL\", \"vectorString\": \"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H\", \"integrityImpact\": \"HIGH\", \"userInteraction\": \"NONE\", \"attackComplexity\": \"LOW\", \"availabilityImpact\": \"HIGH\", \"privilegesRequired\": \"NONE\", \"confidentialityImpact\": \"HIGH\"}}, {\"other\": {\"type\": \"ssvc\", \"content\": {\"id\": \"CVE-2024-39705\", \"role\": \"CISA Coordinator\", \"options\": [{\"Exploitation\": \"none\"}, {\"Automatable\": \"yes\"}, {\"Technical Impact\": \"total\"}], \"version\": \"2.0.3\", \"timestamp\": \"2024-06-28T14:53:05.439937Z\"}}}], \"affected\": [{\"cpes\": [\"cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\"], \"vendor\": \"nltk\", \"product\": \"nltk\", \"versions\": [{\"status\": \"affected\", \"version\": \"0\", \"versionType\": \"custom\", \"lessThanOrEqual\": \"3.8.1\"}], \"defaultStatus\": \"unknown\"}], \"problemTypes\": [{\"descriptions\": [{\"lang\": \"en\", \"type\": \"CWE\", \"cweId\": \"CWE-502\", \"description\": \"CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data\"}]}], \"providerMetadata\": {\"orgId\": \"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0\", \"shortName\": \"CISA-ADP\", \"dateUpdated\": \"2024-06-28T15:01:48.579Z\"}}], \"cna\": {\"affected\": [{\"vendor\": \"n/a\", \"product\": \"n/a\", \"versions\": [{\"status\": \"affected\", \"version\": \"n/a\"}]}], \"references\": [{\"url\": \"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266\"}, {\"url\": \"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522\"}, {\"url\": \"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706\"}], \"descriptions\": [{\"lang\": \"en\", \"value\": \"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.\"}], \"problemTypes\": [{\"descriptions\": [{\"lang\": \"en\", \"type\": \"text\", \"description\": \"n/a\"}]}], \"providerMetadata\": {\"orgId\": \"8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca\", \"shortName\": \"mitre\", \"dateUpdated\": \"2024-08-26T15:37:28.272218\"}}}",
         cveMetadata: "{\"cveId\": \"CVE-2024-39705\", \"state\": \"PUBLISHED\", \"dateUpdated\": \"2024-09-15T19:27:36.034Z\", \"dateReserved\": \"2024-06-27T00:00:00\", \"assignerOrgId\": \"8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca\", \"datePublished\": \"2024-06-27T00:00:00\", \"assignerShortName\": \"mitre\"}",
         dataType: "CVE_RECORD",
         dataVersion: "5.1",
      },
   },
}


Log in or create an account to share your comment.

Security Advisory comment format.

This schema specifies the format of a comment related to a security advisory.

UUIDv4 of the comment
UUIDv4 of the Vulnerability-Lookup instance
When the comment was created originally
When the comment was last updated
Title of the comment
Description of the comment
The identifier of the vulnerability (CVE ID, GHSA-ID, PYSEC ID, etc.).



Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.




Sightings

Author Source Type Date

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or seen somewhere by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability is confirmed from an analyst perspective.
  • Exploited: This vulnerability was exploited and seen by the user reporting the sighting.
  • Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
  • Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expresses doubt about the veracity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.