GHSA-8vh5-mgjj-w6hg

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8vh5-mgjj-w6hg
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/08/GHSA-8vh5-mgjj-w6hg/GHSA-8vh5-mgjj-w6hg.json
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Withdrawn
2026-09-02T15:40:08Z
Published
2026-08-22T15:31:03Z
Modified
2026-09-02T16:00:17Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/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: [CWE-1188] Default ENFORCE=False Disables All pathsec Security Controls
Details

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-p3m8-78j2-g5p3. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 default to ENFORCE=False in pathsec.py, causing all security validation functions to emit warnings instead of raising exceptions. Attackers can bypass path traversal and pickle deserialization protections by exploiting the disabled security controls that are only active when manually enabled.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-1188"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-09-02T15:40:08Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2026-08-22T15:16:18Z",
    "severity":  "HIGH"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / nltk

Package

Name
nltk
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Purl
pkg:pypi/nltk

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last Affected
3.9.4

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

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/08/GHSA-8vh5-mgjj-w6hg/GHSA-8vh5-mgjj-w6hg.json"