GHSA-54xp-3ww7-6wjg

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-54xp-3ww7-6wjg
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/08/GHSA-54xp-3ww7-6wjg/GHSA-54xp-3ww7-6wjg.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-54xp-3ww7-6wjg
Withdrawn
2026-09-01T20:25:22Z
Published
2026-08-25T03:32:11Z
Modified
2026-09-01T20:30:04Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 8.5 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
Summary
Duplicate Advisory: Uncontrolled search path when invoking the Graphviz 'dot' binary (CWE-426/CWE-427)
Details

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-6hwm-xvph-95vm. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 fail to use validated absolute paths when invoking the Graphviz dot binary in dependencygraph.dot2img and AlignedSent.repr_svg, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious dot binary in the search path or current working directory. Attackers can exploit bare-name binary resolution on Windows via the current working directory or on Unix-like systems via relative PATH entries to execute their binary instead of the legitimate Graphviz tool.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-426"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-09-01T20:25:22Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-08-25T02:16:52Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / nltk

Package

Name
nltk
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/nltk

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last Affected
3.10.2

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.1rc2-git
2.0b4
2.0b5
2.0b6
2.0b7
2.0b8
2.0b9
2.0.1rc1
2.0.1rc3
2.0.1rc4
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.0.4
2.0.5
0.*
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
3.*
3.0.0b1
3.0.0b2
3.0.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.0.3
3.0.4
3.0.5
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
3.4.2
3.4.3
3.4.4
3.4.5
3.5b1
3.5
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
3.9b1
3.9
3.9.1
3.9.2
3.9.3
3.9.4
3.10.0
3.10.1
3.10.2

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/08/GHSA-54xp-3ww7-6wjg/GHSA-54xp-3ww7-6wjg.json"