CVE-2026-54293

CVE-2026-54293 affects NLTK’s nltk.data.load() in Python. A TOCTOU-style flaw lets an attacker bypass the unsafe-path regex (UNSAFE_NO_PROTOCOL_RE) by using URL-encoded path separators (e.g., %2f, %2e%2e) and then decoding, enabling arbitrary local file reads prior to the fix. Affected until vers...