What is GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch?

GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. ntlk unsafe deserialization vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch cover?

GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2024-39705. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch?

GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch?

GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch affects 1 product, including: pip/nltk:\u003c 3.9.

GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcchHighCVSS 7.5

ntlk unsafe deserialization vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 28, 2024

Last Modified

January 21, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-39705 →

📋 Description

NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for example, averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

🎯 Affected products1

pip/nltk:< 3.9

🔗 References (7)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39705
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/441aecb7d33014bd08672232c6c8bb69c2ceaba2
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nltk/PYSEC-2024-167.yaml
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch