CVE-2026-80206

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80206
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-80206.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-80206
Aliases
  • GHSA-w3v8-gmh9-3wv7
Downstream
Published
2026-08-26T10:28:15.035Z
Modified
2026-08-28T11:47:33.450673272Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
NLTK 3.10.2 Regular Expression Denial of Service via tgrep
Details

NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the tgrep module. The tgrepnodeaction function compiles user-supplied regular expressions embedded in /regex/ pattern nodes and executes them via re.search against tree node labels without any validation or timeout. An attacker who controls the tgrep pattern (e.g., via tgreppositions() or tgrep_compile() exposed to external input) can supply a pattern that triggers catastrophic backtracking, causing indefinite CPU saturation that blocks the Python process.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/80xxx/CVE-2026-80206.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "VulnCheck"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nltk/nltk

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nltk/nltk
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
303f6e2ba8e4548a5f54fd65d86bb5c9a949f1db
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "DESCRIPTION"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.10.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.1rc1
2.0.1rc2
2.0.1rc3
2.0.1rc4
3.*
3.0.0b1
3.0.2
3.0.3
3.0.4
3.0.5
3.0a4
3.1
3.2
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.2.3
3.2.4
3.2.5
3.3
3.4
3.4.1
3.4.3
3.4.4
3.5
3.5b1
3.6
3.6.1
3.6.2
3.6.5
3.6.6
3.6.7
3.7
3.8
3.8.1
3.8.2
3.9
3.9.1
3.9.2
3.9.3
3.9.4
v.*
v.3.10.1
v3.*
v3.10.0
v3.10.0-rc1
v3.10.0-rc2
v3.10.1
v3.10.1-rc1
v3.10.1-rc2
v3.10.2
v3.10.2-rc1
v3.9.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-80206.json"