CVE-2024-39705

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published6/27/2024

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-502

References

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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