⚠ Withdrawn by GitHub Security Advisories
Withdrawn: September 2, 2026
GHSA-8vh5-mgjj-w6hgHighCVSS 7.5Disclosed before NVD
Duplicate Advisory: [CWE-1188] Default ENFORCE=False Disables All pathsec Security Controls
📋 Description
Duplicate Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-p3m8-78j2-g5p3. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
NLTK versions before 3.10.0 default to ENFORCE=False in pathsec.py, causing all security validation functions to emit warnings instead of raising exceptions. Attackers can bypass path traversal and pickle deserialization protections by exploiting the disabled security controls that are only active when manually enabled.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/nltk:<= 3.9.4