CVE-2026-79676

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.95.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 5.9 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-25. A secondary CVSS source baseline 5.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Elevated
5.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (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: 0.4%CVSS: 5.9Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a path traversal vulnerability in corpus readers that reopen root-derived paths using built-in open() instead of nltk.pathsec.open(), allowing symlinks to escape trusted roots. Attackers who stage symlinked corpus files under a trusted data root can disclose outside-root content through normal corpus reader methods like channels(), domains(), and synonyms().

CVSS v3
5.9
EG Score
5.9MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
43
EG Risk 43/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity59% × 45%
The EG Score, 5.9 of 10.
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 or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
37th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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)60 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 partial (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

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

August 31, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 25, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Corpus readers follow symlinks outside trusted roots despite pathsec enforcement · Advisory · nltk/nltk · GitHub

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-p4rw-rvv2-7xwr

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-79676(1)

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

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
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 (68 versions)
  • every version up to 3.10.3: fixed in 3.10.3
—

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 53× 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.

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. 4 repeat rows among the latest 94 are merged into the row they repeat.

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  45. 2026-09-01 20:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w5q8-6jpp-4246 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  48. 2026-08-31 19:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w5q8-6jpp-4246 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  50. 2026-08-30 21:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w5q8-6jpp-4246 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  54. 2026-08-29 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w5q8-6jpp-4246 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  56. 2026-08-28 19:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w5q8-6jpp-4246 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  58. 2026-08-27 20:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w5q8-6jpp-4246 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  61. 2026-08-26 18:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w5q8-6jpp-4246 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 5.9
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  63. 2026-08-25 16:24 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-08-25 15:30 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 5.9 MEDIUM
  65. 2026-08-25 15:29 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-79676?
CVE-2026-79676 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 25, 2026. NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a path traversal vulnerability in corpus readers that reopen root-derived paths using built-in open() instead of nltk.pathsec.open(), allowing symlinks to escape trusted roots. Attackers who stage symlinked corpus files under a trusted data root can disclose…
When was CVE-2026-79676 made public?
CVE-2026-79676 was made public on August 11, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 25, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 31, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-79676 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-79676 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (37th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-79676?
CVE-2026-79676 has a CVSS base score of 5.9 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-79676?
A fix for CVE-2026-79676 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-79676 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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