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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1ycWpoLWpwMnItNTljas0g2g

NLTK Vulnerable to REDoS

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

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1ycWpoLWpwMnItNTljas0g2g
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj, CVE-2021-3842
References:

• 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/advisories/GHSA-rqjh-jp2r-59cj

Repository: https://github.com/nltk/nltk
Blast Radius: 35.7

Affected Packages