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Advisory details: pypa / nltk/PYSEC-2024-167
Advisory ID pypa/nltk/PYSEC-2024-167
Aliases CVE-2024-39705
GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch
PYSEC-2024-167
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706
GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
There are no known vectors.

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-06-28T14:53:05Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2024/39xxx/CVE-2024-39705.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2024-39705

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 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]