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CVE-2026-72818 NLTK TweetTokenizer URL Pattern Backtracks Catastrophically on Naked-Domain-Like Input

🗓️ 20 Aug 2026 21:57:34Reported by VulnCheckType 
cvelist
 cvelist
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NLTK TweetTokenizer URL regex suffers catastrophic backtracking on naked-domain input, enabling unauthenticated DoS.

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circl
Circl
CVE-2026-72818
20 Aug 202623:00
circl
cve
CVE
CVE-2026-72818
20 Aug 202621:57
cve
euvd
EUVD
EUVD-2026-63729
21 Aug 202600:31
euvd
nvd
NVD
CVE-2026-72818
20 Aug 202622:18
nvd
ptsecurity
Positive Technologies
PT-2026-79260
20 Aug 202600:00
ptsecurity
[
  {
    "vendor": "nltk",
    "product": "nltk",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "packageURL": "pkg:pypi/nltk",
    "collectionURL": "https://pypi.org",
    "packageName": "nltk",
    "repo": "https://github.com/nltk/nltk",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "3.10.1",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "version": "3.10.1",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "nltk/tokenize/casual.py"
    ]
  }
]

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