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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71408

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker who controls command-line arguments to execute arbitrary Python code. When collocations.py is invoked directly, the main block passes command-line arguments directly to eval() as suffixes of BigramAssocMeasures without allowlist validation or sanitization, enabling an attacker to supply a Python expression that escapes the intended attribute lookup and executes arbitrary code including OS commands via the os module.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 nltk
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:13 nltk
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:14 nltk
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.9.3-1"}]}]

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