Path Traversal

NLTK is vulnerable to a path traversal. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of selectors or poisoned index state in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader, which allows an attacker to supply crafted parameters to methods such as framebyname, doc, lu, and header to access and...

EUVD-2026-64337

NLTK: Stable FrameNet and NKJP readers parse outside-root XML...

CVE-2026-62385

A flaw was found in NLTK. This path traversal vulnerability, located in the FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader components, allows an attacker to read arbitrary XML files accessible to the application. This can be achieved by supplying unsafe selectors or poisoned index state, exploiting...

External Control of File Name or Path

Overview nltk is a Natural Language Toolkit NLTK is a Python package for natural language processing. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to External Control of File Name or Path via path handling in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader. An attacker can read and parse arbitrary...

CVE-2026-62385

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader that allows attackers to parse XML files outside the corpus root by supplying unsafe selectors or poisoned index state. Attackers can exploit framebyname, doc, lu, and header methods wi...

PYSEC-2026-3728

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader that allows attackers to parse XML files outside the corpus root by supplying unsafe selectors or poisoned index state. Attackers can exploit framebyname, doc, lu, and header methods wi...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62385

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader that allows attackers to parse XML files outside the corpus root by supplying unsafe selectors or poisoned index state. Attackers can exploit framebyname, doc, lu, and header methods wi...

CVE-2026-62385

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader that allows attackers to parse XML files outside the corpus root by supplying unsafe selectors or poisoned index state. Attackers can exploit framebyname, doc, lu, and header methods wi...

CVE-2026-62385

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader that allows attackers to parse XML files outside the corpus root by supplying unsafe selectors or poisoned index state. Attackers can exploit framebyname, doc, lu, and header methods wi...

PT-2026-79559

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NLTK versions prior to 3.10.0 Description A path traversal issue exists in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader. This allows attackers to parse XML files located outside the corpus root by providing unsafe selectors or a poisoned index...

CVE-2026-62385: External Control of File Name or Path

NLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader that allows attackers to parse XML files outside the corpus root by supplying unsafe selectors or poisoned index state. Attackers can exploit framebyname, doc, lu, and header methods wi...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-62385

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 3.10.0 contain a path traversal vulnerability in FramenetCorpusReader and NKJPCorpusReader that allows attackers to parse XML files outside...

CVE-2026-12072

A path-traversal vulnerability in "NKJPCorpusReader" allows an attacker who can influence the "fileids" argument of its public read methods "header", "raw", "words", "sents", "taggedwords" to read files outside the corpus root. The reader builds the file path with no containment check and opens i...