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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-78683

NLTK before 3.10.0 (affected versions

Original description

The description as published by the source.

NLTK before 3.10.0 (affected versions <=3.9.4) contains an unsafe pickle deserialization vulnerability in the TransitionParser.parse() method (nltk/parse/transitionparser.py). The method calls pickle_load() with the default restricted=False, routing deserialization through WarningUnpickler, which does not override find_class() and therefore permits arbitrary class resolution. When an application loads an attacker-crafted model file, embedded pickle gadget chains execute arbitrary Python code with the privileges of the user running the application. NLTK provides a RestrictedUnpickler for safe deserialization, but it is not used by production code paths. Fixed in 3.10.0.

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"}]}]

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