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CVE-2026-33236

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Published: Mar 20, 2026Modified: Mar 23, 2026

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8.1
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.2
Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Description

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) is a suite of open source Python modules, data sets, and tutorials supporting research and development in Natural Language Processing. In versions 3.9.3 and prior, the NLTK downloader does not validate the `subdir` and `id` attributes when processing remote XML index files. Attackers can control a remote XML index server to provide malicious values containing path traversal sequences (such as `../`), which can lead to arbitrary directory creation, arbitrary file creation, and arbitrary file overwrite. Commit 89fe2ec2c6bae6e2e7a46dad65cc34231976ed8a patches the issue.

Affected (1)

Products: Nltk: Nltk
Nltk
1 product
Nltk
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Nltk
Up to 3.9.3

Related CWEs

CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

References (2)

Source: security-advisories@github.com
Patch
Source: security-advisories@github.com
ExploitVendor Advisory

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