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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-65915

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a logic bug in FileSystemPathPointer.open() where the sandbox validation check compares a normalized path against...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a logic bug in FileSystemPathPointer.open() where the sandbox validation check compares a normalized path against itself, making the security check permanently inert. Attackers can pass file:// URLs to nltk.data.load() to read arbitrary files accessible to the process user, including credentials and configuration files.

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":"3.10.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org