What is GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj?

GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. NLTK Vulnerable to REDoS

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj cover?

GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-3842. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj?

GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj?

GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj affects 1 product, including: pip/nltk:\u003c 3.6.6.

GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cjHighCVSS 7.5

NLTK Vulnerable to REDoS

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

January 6, 2022

Last Modified

September 26, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-3842 →

📋 Description

NLTK is vulnerable to REDoS in some RegexpTaggers used in the functions get_pos_tagger and malt_regex_tagger.

🎯 Affected products1

pip/nltk:< 3.6.6

🔗 References (6)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3842
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/2a50a3edc9d35f57ae42a921c621edc160877f4d
https://huntr.dev/bounties/761a761e-2be2-430a-8d92-6f74ffe9866a
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/2906
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nltk/PYSEC-2022-5.yaml
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj