pysec - pysec-2024-167

pysec-2024-167

Vulnerability from pysec

Published

2024-06-27 22:15

Modified

2025-01-18 19:19

Details

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.

Impacted products

Name	purl
nltk	pkg:pypi/nltk

Aliases

CVE-2024-39705

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "nltk",
            purl: "pkg:pypi/nltk",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "3.9",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
         versions: [
            "0.8",
            "0.9",
            "0.9.3",
            "0.9.4",
            "0.9.5",
            "0.9.6",
            "0.9.7",
            "0.9.8",
            "0.9.9",
            "2.0.1",
            "2.0.1rc1",
            "2.0.1rc2-git",
            "2.0.1rc3",
            "2.0.1rc4",
            "2.0.2",
            "2.0.3",
            "2.0.4",
            "2.0.5",
            "2.0b4",
            "2.0b5",
            "2.0b6",
            "2.0b7",
            "2.0b8",
            "2.0b9",
            "3.0.0",
            "3.0.0b1",
            "3.0.0b2",
            "3.0.1",
            "3.0.2",
            "3.0.3",
            "3.0.4",
            "3.0.5",
            "3.1",
            "3.2",
            "3.2.1",
            "3.2.2",
            "3.2.3",
            "3.2.4",
            "3.2.5",
            "3.3",
            "3.4",
            "3.4.1",
            "3.4.2",
            "3.4.3",
            "3.4.4",
            "3.4.5",
            "3.5",
            "3.5b1",
            "3.6",
            "3.6.1",
            "3.6.2",
            "3.6.3",
            "3.6.4",
            "3.6.5",
            "3.6.6",
            "3.6.7",
            "3.7",
            "3.8",
            "3.8.1",
            "3.9b1",
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2024-39705",
   ],
   details: "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.",
   id: "PYSEC-2024-167",
   modified: "2025-01-18T19:19:06.317325+00:00",
   published: "2024-06-27T22:15:10+00:00",
   references: [
      {
         type: "REPORT",
         url: "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522",
      },
      {
         type: "REPORT",
         url: "https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706",
      },
   ],
}

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

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
	https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
	https://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

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