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PYSEC-2024-167

Quick fix

PYSEC-2024-167 — nltk: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'nltk>=3.9'

Details

NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for example, averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

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Affected packages

PyPI/nltk

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.9

Fixpip install --upgrade 'nltk>=3.9'

References

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522[REPORT]
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266[REPORT]
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch[ADVISORY]