CVE-2026-12252

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-04. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Elevated
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In nltk/nltk versions 3.9.3 and earlier, five Stanford interface classes (StanfordPOSTagger, StanfordNERTagger, StanfordParser, StanfordDependencyParser, and StanfordNeuralDependencyParser) are vulnerable to untrusted JAR code execution. These classes accept user-controllable JAR paths and execute them via the java() function, which invokes subprocess.Popen() without integrity verification. This vulnerability is identical to CVE-2026-0848, which was fixed for StanfordSegmenter by adding SHA256 verification. However, the fix was not applied to these additional classes, leaving them susceptible to arbitrary code execution when loading untrusted JAR files.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
51
EG Risk 51/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
8th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 4, 2026

Last Modified

July 8, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Jul 4, 2026
Patch available.
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Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-12252(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nltk3.10.0-1 ... 3.9.3-1 (12 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nltk3.10.0-1 ... 3.9.3-1 (9 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nltk3.10.0-1 ... 3.9.3-1 (6 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nltk3.10.0-1, 3.10.1-1, 3.9.1-2, 3.9.2-1, 3.9.3-1
  • every version up to 3.10.3-1: fixed in 3.10.3-1
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PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
nltk0.8 ... 3.9b1 (64 versions)
  • every version up to 3.9.4: fixed in 3.9.4
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 33× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 243 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 143 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-05 17:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 13th percentile
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  9. 2026-09-23 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  10. 2026-09-23 06:33 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-23 06:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  12. 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
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  14. 2026-09-18 06:11 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-18 06:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  16. 2026-09-16 05:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
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  18. 2026-09-14 00:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  19. 2026-09-13 16:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  20. 2026-09-13 08:53 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-13 08:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  22. 2026-09-12 15:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
  23. 2026-09-12 13:53 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-12 13:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  25. 2026-09-11 14:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
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  31. 2026-09-06 14:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  32. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
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  34. 2026-09-05 23:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  39. 2026-08-30 23:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  40. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 14th percentile
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  42. 2026-08-30 11:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  46. 2026-08-27 22:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  49. 2026-08-27 02:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  51. 2026-08-26 14:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  53. 2026-08-25 12:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  55. 2026-08-24 20:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  56. 2026-08-24 06:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  57. 2026-08-23 18:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  58. 2026-08-23 06:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  59. 2026-08-22 18:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  61. 2026-08-22 05:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  62. 2026-08-21 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
  63. 2026-08-21 17:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  65. 2026-08-21 04:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  67. 2026-08-20 15:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  69. 2026-08-20 03:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  70. 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 9th percentile
  71. 2026-08-19 08:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  72. 2026-08-18 20:51 UTCEG score recompute
  73. 2026-08-18 20:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9r6g-266r-89x4 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-12252?
CVE-2026-12252 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 4, 2026. In nltk/nltk versions 3.9.3 and earlier, five Stanford interface classes (StanfordPOSTagger, StanfordNERTagger, StanfordParser, StanfordDependencyParser, and StanfordNeuralDependencyParser) are vulnerable to untrusted JAR code execution. These classes accept user-controllable JAR paths and execute…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-12252 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-12252 was published on July 4, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-12252 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-12252 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (8th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-12252?
CVE-2026-12252 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-12252?
A fix for CVE-2026-12252 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-12252 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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