GHSA-HQV3-XM29-P9HQ Duplicate Advisory: Quadratic CPU Exhaustion in `XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment()`

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-vp2x-qp44-57v7. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment that...

PYSEC-2026-3752

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 readblock method...

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Overview nltk is a Natural Language Toolkit NLTK is a Python package for natural language processing. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in the readblock method of TEICorpusView nltk/corpus/reader/pl196x.py, whose lazy .? whole-block regexes...

CVE-2026-81725

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 readblock method...

PYSEC-2026-3752

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 readblock method...

CVE-2026-81723

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment 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...

PYSEC-2026-3738

nltk PorterStemmer in versions = 3.10.2 fixed in 3.10.3 contains an inefficient-algorithmic-complexity denial of service in PorterStemmer.stem. The isconsonant helper walks backward over the entire run of trailing 'y' characters on every call, and measure invokes it for each stem position, causin...

CVE-2026-81722

nltk PorterStemmer in versions = 3.10.2 fixed in 3.10.3 contains an inefficient-algorithmic-complexity denial of service in PorterStemmer.stem. The isconsonant helper walks backward over the entire run of trailing 'y' characters on every call, and measure invokes it for each stem position, causin...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-81725

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 readblock method...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-81723

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment 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...

CVE-2026-81722

nltk PorterStemmer in versions = 3.10.2 fixed in 3.10.3 contains an inefficient-algorithmic-complexity denial of service in PorterStemmer.stem. The isconsonant helper walks backward over the entire run of trailing 'y' characters on every call, and measure invokes it for each stem position, causin...

CVE-2026-81725

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 readblock method...

PYSEC-2026-3961

opensslencrypt versions before 1.4.9 fail to properly validate key derivation function costs in crafted files, allowing attackers to trigger unbounded memory and CPU exhaustion during pre-authentication processing. Attackers can supply malicious files with excessive KDF parameters to exhaust syst...

CVE-2026-81687

opensslencrypt versions before 1.4.9 fail to enforce a time ceiling on key derivation function iteration counts specified in file metadata. Attackers can craft files with extremely high KDF iteration counts to consume CPU resources for unbounded periods before password verification occurs...

SUSE CVE-2026-62326

Weblate is a web-based continuous localization platform used to manage software translations. In versions prior to 2026.7, a user with the built-in "Edit source" role can store a malicious regular expression in a source string's flags that is executed without any timeout, allowing them to stall...

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

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 readblock method...

CVE-2026-81725

NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability in the Pl196xCorpusReader component. The root cause lies in lazy regex patterns within the read_block method, which can be triggered by supplying malformed TEI blocks containing many unmatched opening tags. Attackers...

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

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 readblock method...

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

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 readblock method...

CVE-2026-81723

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 are affected by a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment() . The function rescans all accumulated XML fragments on every 1 KiB block read, causing CPU consumption to grow quadratically with input size. An attacker can supply malforme...