What is GHSA-3h2g-j4wp-7qqq?

GHSA-3h2g-j4wp-7qqq is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. NLTK before 3.10.3 fails to validate JVM options passed through the per-call options parameter in...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-3h2g-j4wp-7qqq cover?

GHSA-3h2g-j4wp-7qqq covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-79675. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-3h2g-j4wp-7qqq?

GHSA-3h2g-j4wp-7qqq has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-3h2g-j4wp-7qqqCriticalCVSS 9.8

NLTK before 3.10.3 fails to validate JVM options passed through the per-call options parameter in...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

August 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-79675 →

📋 Description

NLTK before 3.10.3 fails to validate JVM options passed through the per-call options parameter in the java() function, allowing attackers to inject dangerous JVM flags. Attackers can supply malicious options like -agentpath, -javaagent, or @argfile to Stanford wrapper classes to achieve arbitrary code execution.

🔗 References (4)

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-m4rf-3fr8-xwx3
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79675
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-before-jvm-argument-injection-via-per-call-options
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h2g-j4wp-7qqq