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.

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"
            }
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          "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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