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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.3 High

CVE-2026-109956

NLTK through 3.10.3 Path Traversal via WekaClassifier Model Path

Description

NLTK through 3.10.3 contains a path traversal vulnerability in WekaClassifier that allows attackers to bypass nltk.pathsec containment by supplying unvalidated model paths. Attackers controlling the model_filename or model argument can make the weka JVM write files via -d or probe files via -l outside allowed data roots.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

nltk nltk

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 3.10.3affected
pkg:pypi/nltk

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