NLTK before 3.9.3 fails to verify file integrity after downloading packages and before extraction in the downloader module. Attackers can perform man-in-the-middle attacks or DNS poisoning to inject malicious package contents that are extracted without validation.
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"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-494"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/63xxx/CVE-2026-63310.json"
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.9.3"
}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"CPE_RANGE"
]
}