CVE-2026-81725NLTK before 3.10.3 Regular Expression Denial of Service via Pl196xCorpusReader

Beschreibung

NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Pl196xCorpusReader that allows attackers to cause quadratic CPU consumption by supplying malformed TEI blocks with many unmatched opening tags. Attackers can exploit lazy regex patterns in the read_block method through public APIs like words() and tagged_words() to force repeated rescans and achieve near-quadratic runtime growth.

Daten: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Wiedergegeben wie in der Quelle, auf Englisch.

Betroffene Produkte und Versionen

Referenzen und Patches

• GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-8mpw-7fpc-4gqj) vendor-advisoryExploitVendor Advisory
• VulnCheck Advisory: NLTK before 3.10.3 Regular Expression Denial of Service via Pl196xCorpusReader third-party-advisoryThird Party Advisory