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NLTK TweetTokenizer vulnerable to denial of service through catastrophic regex backtracking

  • Publicada: 21.08.2026
  • Actualizado: 11.10.2026 15:18

The URLS regular expression in nltk/tokenize/casual.py, compiled into TweetTokenizer.WORD_RE and applied by TweetTokenizer.tokenize, contains a naked-domain branch whose domain-label prefix [a-z0-9]+(?:[.-][a-z0-9]+)* is unbounded. Input consisting of many alternating label separators can be partitioned in exponentially many ways, and because the branch also requires a trailing top-level domain that such input never supplies, the engine explores those partitions before failing at each offset. A few kilobytes of input therefore consumes seconds to minutes of single-threaded CPU, and the HANG_RE substitution performed before matching does not collapse the pattern. TweetTokenizer is intended for tokenizing untrusted social-media text, so any service that applies it, or the module-level casual_tokenize, to submitted text can be stalled per request without authentication. Version 3.10.1 bounds the label repetition.

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PlataformaPaqueteVersiones vulnerablesCorregida en
Python (PyPI) nltk < 3.10.1 3.10.1

Referencias

Puntuación CVSS 7.5/10
Vector CVSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Debilidad (CWE)
CWE-1333
Plataforma
Python (PyPI)
Paquete
nltk
Publicada
21.08.2026
Actualizado
11.10.2026 15:18

Fuentes y licencias

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2026-3870 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-qx2g-xrx7-vfh8 - CC BY 4.0

Historial de vulnerabilidades: nltk

Todas las vulnerabilidades publicadas de este paquete (Python (PyPI)), de la más reciente a la más antigua. Muestra si es un fallo aislado o un paquete que hay que vigilar.

Todas (52) en el archivo
Entradas en total
52
Primera → última
08.2019 09.2026
Sin corrección
6
Explotada en ataques
0

Distribución por gravedad

  • Crítica 5
  • Alta 32
  • Media 13
  • Baja 2

Divulgaciones por año

Gravedad:
  1. NLTK: Uncontrolled search path when invoking the Graphviz 'dot' binary
    Alta · 7.8 CVE-2026-78680 < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  2. NLTK: Model-artifact APIs bypass pathsec and touch files outside allowed roots
    Alta · 7.0 CVE-2026-81726 <= 3.10.3 sin corrección
  3. NLTK: ReDoS in nltk.tgrep via unvalidated user-supplied regular expressions
    Alta CVE-2026-80206 < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  4. NLTK: ReDoS in nltk.text.Text.findall() via unvalidated user-supplied regular expressions
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-80205 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  5. NLTK: JVM argument injection bypass via per-call options in the NLTK Stanford wrappers (incomplete fix of CVE-2026-12841)
    Crítica · 9.8 CVE-2026-79675 < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  6. NLTK: Corpus readers follow symlinks outside trusted roots despite pathsec enforcement
    Alta CVE-2026-79676 < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  7. NLTK: Corpus Reader Sandbox Bypass
    Alta CVE-2026-79674 < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  8. NLTK: Allowlisted pickle loaders still permit code execution in current source
    Crítica CVE-2026-79657 < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  9. NLTK: Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in TransitionParser Allows Remote Code Execution
    Crítica CVE-2026-78683 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  10. NLTK: Entity-expansion DoS (billion laughs) via remaining raw ElementTree parses
    Alta CVE-2026-78681 < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  11. NLTK: pathsec SSRF protection can be bypassed when a proxy is configured
    Alta CVE-2026-78682 < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  12. NLTK AllowlistUnpickler dotted-name validation bypass allows remote code execution
    Alta · 8.8 CVE-2026-71513 >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.3 3.10.3
  13. NLTK: Symlink escape in CorpusReader allows arbitrary local file read outside the corpus root
    Alta · 6.2 CVE-2026-70626 < 3.9.4 3.9.4
  14. NLTK: StreamBackedCorpusView Bypasses pathsec.ENFORCE - Arbitrary Local File Read
    Alta CVE-2026-63312 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  15. NLTK: Symlink-based sandbox bypass in FramenetCorpusReader (bypasses the fix for CVE-2026-54292)
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-62384 >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.2 3.10.2
  16. NLTK: Stable FrameNet and NKJP readers parse outside-root XML
    Alta · 5.9 CVE-2026-62385 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  17. NLTK: Default ENFORCE=False Disables All pathsec Security Controls
    Alta CVE-2026-62388 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  18. NLTK TweetTokenizer vulnerable to denial of service through catastrophic regex backtracking esta entrada
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-72818 < 3.10.1 3.10.1
  19. Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): DNS-rebinding SSRF filter bypass in nltk.pathsec.urlopen (nltk.download / nltk.data.load) defeats ENFORCE mode
    Alta · 8.6 CVE-2026-12075 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  20. Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): ReDoS in NLTK ReviewsCorpusReader FEATURES regex
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-12061 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  21. Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): Path Traversal in NKJPCorpusReader leads to Arbitrary File Read and bypasses the nltk.pathsec sandbox (ENFORCE=True)
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-12072 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  22. Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) has path traversal in FramenetCorpusReader.frame() that allows arbitrary XML file read, bypassing the nltk.pathsec sandbox (ENFORCE=True)
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-12074 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  23. 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 arb
    Alta CVE-2025-71408 < 3.9.3 3.9.3
  24. In nltk/nltk versions 3.9.3 and earlier, five Stanford interface classes (StanfordPOSTagger, StanfordNERTagger, StanfordParser, StanfordDependencyParser, and StanfordNeuralDependencyParser) are vulner
    Alta · 7.8 CVE-2026-12252 < 3.9.4 3.9.4
  25. NLTK version 3.9.4 is vulnerable to a path traversal attack due to an incomplete fix for GitHub Issue #3504. The `_UNSAFE_NO_PROTOCOL_RE` regex in `nltk/data.py` checks for literal `../` sequences but
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-12243 <= 3.9.4 sin corrección
  26. Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): URL-Encoded Path Traversal in nltk.data.load() Allows Arbitrary Local File Read
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-54293 < 3.10.0 3.10.0
  27. NLTK has a Downloader Path Traversal Vulnerability (AFO) - Arbitrary File Overwrite
    Alta · 8.1 CVE-2026-33236 <= 3.9.2 sin corrección
  28. Unauthenticated remote shutdown in nltk.app.wordnet_app
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-33231 < 3.9.4 3.9.4
  29. A vulnerability in the `filestring()` function of the `nltk.util` module in nltk version 3.9.2 allows arbitrary file read due to improper validation of input paths. The function directly opens files s
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-0846 <= 3.9.2 sin corrección
  30. NLTK versions <=3.9.2 are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to improper input validation in the StanfordSegmenter module. The module dynamically loads external Java .jar files without verific
    Crítica · 10.0 CVE-2026-0848 < 3.9.3 3.9.3
  31. A vulnerability in NLTK versions up to and including 3.9.2 allows arbitrary file read via path traversal in multiple CorpusReader classes, including WordListCorpusReader, TaggedCorpusReader, and Brack
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2026-0847 < 3.9.3 3.9.3
  32. NLTK has a Zip Slip Vulnerability
    Crítica · 10.0 CVE-2025-14009 < 3.9.3 3.9.3
  33. ntlk unsafe deserialization vulnerability
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2024-39705 < 3.9 3.9
  34. NLTK Vulnerable to REDoS
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2021-3842 < 3.6.6 3.6.6
  35. Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in nltk (word_tokenize, sent_tokenize)
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2021-43854 < 3.6.6 3.6.6
  36. NLTK Vulnerable to REDoS
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2021-3828 < 3.6.4 3.6.4
  37. NLTK Vulnerable To Path Traversal
    Alta · 7.5 CVE-2019-14751 < 3.4.5 3.4.5

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