HIGH 8.7 NVD
CVE-2026-71513
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, al
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.
References
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/blob/v3.10.2/nltk/picklesec.py#L119-L124
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/c3e37113742a1ebeeb4f2ca58941f320f98805ea
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-through-remote-code-execution-via-allowlistunpic
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.7 was published on 2026-08-22 via NVD.
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