CVE-2026-79657
CVE-2026-79657 · NLTK before 3.10.3 Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization
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NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a remote code execution vulnerability in allowlisted pickle loaders that trust entire module namespaces instead of specific safe callables. Attackers can craft malicious pickle payloads invoking dangerous in-namespace functions like ReppTokenizer._execute and numpy.f2py.crackfortran.myeval through pickle REDUCE to execute arbitrary commands during model or tokenizer artifact loading.
CVSS 9.3 · Critical · EPSS 1.3% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Affected products and versions
nltk
- Versions
- ≥ 0, < 3.10.3: Affected (semver)
- 3.10.3: Not affected (semver)
Update to 3.10.3
nltk Debian:12
- Versions
- 3.10.0-1
- 3.10.1-1
- 3.10.3-1
- 3.8-1
- 3.8.1-1
- 3.9.1-1
- 3.9.1-2
- 3.9.2-1
- 3.9.3-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nltk Debian:13
- Versions
- 3.10.0-1
- 3.10.1-1
- 3.10.3-1
- 3.9.1-2
- 3.9.2-1
- 3.9.3-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nltk Debian:14
- Versions
- 3.10.0-1
- 3.10.1-1
- 3.9.1-2
- 3.9.2-1
- 3.9.3-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 3.10.3-1
Update to 3.10.3-1
nltk PyPI
- Versions
- 0.8
- 0.9
- 0.9.3
- 0.9.4
- 0.9.5
- 0.9.6
- 0.9.7
- 0.9.8
- 0.9.9
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.1rc1
- 2.0.1rc2-git
- 2.0.1rc3
- 2.0.1rc4
- 2.0.2
- 2.0.3
- 2.0.4
- 2.0.5
- 2.0b4
- 2.0b5
- 2.0b6
- 2.0b7
- 2.0b8
- 2.0b9
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0b1
- 3.0.0b2
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.3
- 3.0.4
- 3.0.5
- 3.1
- 3.10.0
- 3.10.1
- 3.10.2
- 3.2
- 3.2.1
- 3.2.2
- 3.2.3
- 3.2.4
- 3.2.5
- 3.3
- 3.4
- 3.4.1
- 3.4.2
- 3.4.3
- 3.4.4
- 3.4.5
- 3.5
- 3.5b1
- 3.6
- 3.6.1
- 3.6.2
- 3.6.3
- 3.6.4
- 3.6.5
- 3.6.6
- 3.6.7
- 3.7
- 3.8
- 3.8.1
- 3.9
- 3.9.1
- 3.9.2
- 3.9.3
- 3.9.4
- 3.9b1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 3.10.3
Update to 3.10.3
nltk Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
- Versions
- 2.0~b9-0ubuntu4
- 2.0~b9-0ubuntu4.1~esm2
- 2.0~b9-0ubuntu4.1~esm4
- 2.0~b9-0ubuntu4.1~esm5
- 2.0~b9-0ubuntu4.1~esm6
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nltk Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 3.0.4-1
- 3.0.5-1
- 3.1-1
- 3.1-1ubuntu0.1
- 3.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm1
- 3.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
- 3.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
- 3.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nltk Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
- Versions
- 3.2.4-1
- 3.2.5-1
- 3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1
- 3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1+esm1
- 3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
- 3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
- 3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1+esm4
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nltk Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 3.4.5-1
- 3.4.5-2
- 3.4.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
- 3.4.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
- 3.4.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm3
- 3.4.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm4
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nltk Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS
- Versions
- 3.5-1
- 3.6.5-1
- 3.6.7-1
- 3.7-1
- 3.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
- 3.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nltk Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS
- Versions
- 3.8.1-1
- 3.8.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
- 3.8.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
nltk Ubuntu:Pro:26.04:LTS
- Versions
- 3.9.1-2
- 3.9.1-2build1
- 3.9.2-1
- 3.9.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
- 3.9.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published