CVE-2026-81725

NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability in the Pl196xCorpusReader component. The root cause lies in lazy regex patterns within the read_block method, which can be triggered by supplying malformed TEI blocks containing many unmatched opening tags. Attackers...

CVE-2026-81725 NLTK before 3.10.3 Regular Expression Denial of Service via Pl196xCorpusReader

NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Pl196xCorpusReader that allows attackers to cause quadratic CPU consumption by supplying malformed TEI blocks with many unmatched opening tags. Attackers can exploit lazy regex patterns in the readblock method...