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NLTK CrubadanCorpusReader path traversal allows arbitrary file disclosure

NLTK

CVE-2026-71514 · Published Aug 22, 2026 · updated Sep 10, 2026

Low2.5
Fix: upgrade to 3.10.3 or later
GitHub advisory

NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in CrubadanCorpusReader. _load_lang_ngrams joins the corpus root with crubadan_code, the column-0 value read from the corpus table.txt mapping file, and opens the result with the builtin open() rather than the pathsec-validated opener, so os.path.join discards the root when that value is absolute and the read escapes the corpus directory without the containment check nltk.pathsec applies when ENFORCE is set. An attacker who controls a corpus package can disclose file contents outside the corpus root through lang_freq, limited to paths ending in -3grams.txt whose contents parse as token count lines.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
nltk
PyPI
>= 3.9.4, < 3.10.33.10.3
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