CVE-2026-81723NLTK before 3.10.3 Quadratic CPU Exhaustion via XMLCorpusView

Açıklama

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment() that rescans accumulated XML fragments on every 1 KiB block read. Attackers can provide malformed XML corpus files to cause severe CPU consumption and denial of service through affected readers like BNCCorpusReader.

Veri: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Bilgiler kaynaktaki haliyle, İngilizce yayımlanır.

Etkilenen ürünler ve sürümler

Kaynaklar ve yamalar

• GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-vp2x-qp44-57v7) vendor-advisory
• VulnCheck Advisory: NLTK before 3.10.3 Quadratic CPU Exhaustion via XMLCorpusView third-party-advisory