vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-14751: nltk -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 22, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.

Solution

debian-upgrade-nltk
Title
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