CVE-2026-81723 NLTK before 3.10.3 Quadratic CPU Exhaustion via XMLCorpusView

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...