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, averagedperceptrontagger and punkt.
{
"severity": "HIGH",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-300",
"CWE-502"
],
"nvd_published_at": "2024-06-27T22:15:10Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-06-28T21:11:25Z",
"github_reviewed": true
}