GHSA-4xw3-jf9x-x7mfMediumCVSS 7.1

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a filesystem containment bypass vulnerability in the...

Published
August 27, 2026
Last Modified
August 27, 2026

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📋 Description

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a filesystem containment bypass vulnerability in the Downloader.download and Downloader.incr_download methods that allows attackers to overwrite files outside the install root through pre-existing hardlinks. Attackers with write access to a shared downloader directory can create hardlinks pointing to outside-root files that are then overwritten during normal package extraction, mutating files outside the intended install tree.

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