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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14751

NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 nltk

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.4.5-1"}]}]

Debian:13 nltk

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.4.5-1"}]}]

Debian:14 nltk

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.4.5-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org