NLTK: Quadratic CPU Exhaustion in `XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment()`

SummaryXMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment reads a corpus file in 1 KiB blocks, appendingeach block to a growing fragment string, then calls VALIDXMLRE.matchfragmenton the full accumulated buffer every iteration. Because each iteration rescans theentire accumulated fragment, the total amount of work...

PYSEC-2026-3871 NLTK: Quadratic CPU Exhaustion in `XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment()`

Summary XMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment reads a corpus file in 1 KiB blocks, appending each block to a growing fragment string, then calls VALIDXMLRE.matchfragment on the full accumulated buffer every iteration. Because each iteration rescans the entire accumulated fragment, the total amount of wor...

SUSE 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...

GHSA-VP2X-QP44-57V7 NLTK: Quadratic CPU Exhaustion in `XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment()`

Summary XMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment reads a corpus file in 1 KiB blocks, appending each block to a growing fragment string, then calls VALIDXMLRE.matchfragment on the full accumulated buffer every iteration. Because each iteration rescans the entire accumulated fragment, the total amount of wor...

NLTK: Quadratic CPU Exhaustion in `XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment()`

Summary XMLCorpusView.readxmlfragment reads a corpus file in 1 KiB blocks, appending each block to a growing fragment string, then calls VALIDXMLRE.matchfragment on the full accumulated buffer every iteration. Because each iteration rescans the entire accumulated fragment, the total amount of wor...

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-2026-81723

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-2026-81723 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...

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...

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...

PT-2026-82618

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NLTK versions prior to 3.10.3 Description A quadratic CPU exhaustion issue exists in the XMLCorpusView. read xml fragment function. This occurs because the system rescans accumulated XML fragments for every 1 KiB block read. An attacker can...

CVE-2026-81723: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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...