GHSA-8w48-h75v-cxpv

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8w48-h75v-cxpv
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/08/GHSA-8w48-h75v-cxpv/GHSA-8w48-h75v-cxpv.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-8w48-h75v-cxpv
Withdrawn
2026-09-02T14:48:21Z
Published
2026-08-22T15:31:03Z
Modified
2026-09-02T15:00:09Z
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: Security Report: StreamBackedCorpusView Bypasses pathsec.ENFORCE - Arbitrary Local File Read
Details

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-x5ph-mj9p-rfr8. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

NLTK before 3.10.0 contains an arbitrary local file read vulnerability in StreamBackedCorpusView that bypasses pathsec.ENFORCE by calling builtins.open() directly instead of pathsec.open(). Attackers who control the fileid argument can read arbitrary local files regardless of the ENFORCE setting, including sensitive system files and application credentials.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-22"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2026-09-02T14:48:21Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2026-08-22T15:16:19Z",
    "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-8w48-h75v-cxpv/GHSA-8w48-h75v-cxpv.json"