CVE-2026-65915Medium· 6.5▾ SunlitNLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a logic bug in FileSystemPathPointer.open() where the sandbox validation check compares a normalized path against itself, making the security check permanently inert. Attackers can pass file:// URLs to…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 35.8 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a logic bug in FileSystemPathPointer.open() where the sandbox validation check compares a normalized path against itself, making the security check permanently inert. Attackers can pass file:// URLs to nltk.data.load() to read arbitrary files accessible to the process user, including credentials and configuration files.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Affected packages:
nltk <= 3.9.3Patched in:
nltk 3.10.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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