NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in AllowlistUnpickler that validates only the pickle module string and not the global name, allowing attackers to resolve dotted names by attribute traversal to callables outside the allowlisted namespace. Attackers can craft untrusted transition-parser models that execute arbitrary commands when TransitionParser.parse loads the model through allowlisted_pickle_load.
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| Description | NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in AllowlistUnpickler that validates only the pickle module string and not the global name, allowing attackers to resolve dotted names by attribute traversal to callables outside the allowlisted namespace. Attackers can craft untrusted transition-parser models that execute arbitrary commands when TransitionParser.parse loads the model through allowlisted_pickle_load. | |
| Title | NLTK 3.10.0 through 3.10.2 Remote Code Execution via AllowlistUnpickler Dotted-Name Bypass | |
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Nltk
Nltk nltk |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-502 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Nltk
Nltk nltk |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-22T13:34:07.811Z
Reserved: 2026-08-06T20:42:17.834Z
Link: CVE-2026-71513
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-22T14:16:33.417
Modified: 2026-08-22T14:16:33.417
Link: CVE-2026-71513
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-22T16:00:12Z
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