CVE-2024-39705

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Published 2024-06-28 · Modified 2025-01-18

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for example, averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.9.1-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.9.1-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.9.1-1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	nltk	`<3.9`	`3.9`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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