GHSA-848c-c2cx-j7qxHighCVSS 7.8

NLTK vulnerable to Eval Injection via collocations CLI arguments

Published
July 25, 2026
Last Modified
August 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker who controls command-line arguments to execute arbitrary Python code. When collocations.py is invoked directly, the main block passes command-line arguments directly to eval() as suffixes of BigramAssocMeasures without allowlist validation or sanitization, enabling an attacker to supply a Python expression that escapes the intended attribute lookup and executes arbitrary code including OS commands via the os module.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/nltk:< 3.9.3

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