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NLTKGHSA-848c-c2cx-j7qx

NLTK vulnerable to Eval Injection via collocations CLI arguments

NLTK

CVE-2025-71408 · Published Jul 25, 2026 · updated Aug 12, 2026

High7.8
Fix: upgrade to 3.9.3 or later
GitHub advisory

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker who controls command-line arguments to execute arbitrary Python code. When collocations.py is invoked directly, the __main__ block passes command-line arguments directly to eval() as suffixes of BigramAssocMeasures without allowlist validation or sanitization, enabling an attacker to supply a Python expression that escapes the intended attribute lookup and executes arbitrary code including OS commands via the os module.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
nltk
PyPI
< 3.9.33.9.3
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