vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4106-1 (CVE-2019-14751): NLTK vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 20, 2019
Added
Aug 21, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-python-nltkubuntu-upgrade-python3-nltk
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