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GHSA-848c-c2cx-j7qx

NLTK vulnerable to Eval Injection via collocations CLI arguments

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2025-71408

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI nltk < 3.9.3 3.9.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

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