GHSA-97QJ-X29F-37W7 NLTK: Entity-expansion DoS (billion laughs) via remaining raw ElementTree parses

Several XML parsing sites in NLTK still used xml.etree.ElementTree directly, which honours declarations in a document's internal DTD subset. A crafted document a few hundred bytes long can expand to megabytes in memory each nesting level multiplies by ten, a denial-of-service. Affected call sites...

NLTK: Entity-expansion DoS (billion laughs) via remaining raw ElementTree parses

Several XML parsing sites in NLTK still used xml.etree.ElementTree directly, which honours declarations in a document's internal DTD subset. A crafted document a few hundred bytes long can expand to megabytes in memory each nesting level multiplies by ten, a denial-of-service. Affected call sites...

Low: python3.13

Issue Overview: Attacker-controlled CSV samples can trigger super-linear regular-expression work during dialect sniffing and consume significant CPU when applications pass unbounded input to csv.Sniffer.sniff. CVE-2026-18503 Element.findall and fully-consumed Element.iterfind exhibit On^2 time...

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Overview nltk is a Natural Language Toolkit NLTK is a Python package for natural language processing. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs 'XML Entity Expansion' via the raw xml.etree.ElementTree parsing in...

Duplicate Advisory: Entity-expansion DoS (billion laughs) via remaining raw ElementTree parses (CWE-776)

Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-97qj-x29f-37w7. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity...

CVE-2026-78681

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-78681

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service...

PYSEC-2026-3748

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service...

PYSEC-2026-3748

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service...

CVE-2026-78681 NLTK before 3.10.3 Entity Expansion DoS via ElementTree

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service...

CVE-2026-78681 NLTK before 3.10.3 Entity Expansion DoS via ElementTree

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service...

CVE-2026-78681

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 are vulnerable to a denial of service via XML entity expansion. The library uses xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, and this parser honors entity declarations in document DTDs. An attacker can supply a crafted XML payload containing nested entity d...

CVE-2026-78681 NLTK before 3.10.3 Entity Expansion DoS via ElementTree

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service...

PT-2026-81156

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NLTK versions prior to 3.10.3 Description Multiple modules use the xml.etree.ElementTree library to parse XML, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs Document Type Definitions. This allows attackers to craft XML payloads with nested...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-78681

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft X...

CVE-2026-78681

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service...

BIT-LIBPYTHON-2026-6879 Quadratic Behavior in xml.etree.ElementPath Index Predicates

Element.findall and fully-consumed Element.iterfind exhibit On^2 time complexity when using XPath index predicates e.g. 1, last, last-N on XML documents with many same-tag siblings. Element.find is only affected when the first match is near the end of the sibling list, such as with last or...

Security update for python310

This update for python310 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: CVE-2026-0864: improper handling of line-ending characters can lead to configuration file injection when the configparser module is used bsc1269066. CVE-2026-3276: quadratic complexity in unicodedata.normalize can lead t...

CVE-2026-6879

Element.findall and fully-consumed Element.iterfind exhibit On^2 time complexity when using XPath index predicates e.g. 1, last, last-N on XML documents with many same-tag siblings. Element.find is only affected when the first match is near the end of the sibling list, such as with last or...

USN-8524-1: Python vulnerability

It was discovered that Python did not use sufficient entropy for Expat hash-flooding protection in the xml.parsers.expat and xml.etree.ElementTree modules. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML document...