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NLTKPYSEC-2026-2085

NLTK: code execution

NLTK

CVE-2026-12252 · Published Jul 4, 2026 · updated Jul 9, 2026

High7.8
Fix: upgrade to 3.9.4 or later
Source advisory

In nltk/nltk versions 3.9.3 and earlier, five Stanford interface classes (StanfordPOSTagger, StanfordNERTagger, StanfordParser, StanfordDependencyParser, and StanfordNeuralDependencyParser) are vulnerable to untrusted JAR code execution. These classes accept user-controllable JAR paths and execute them via the java() function, which invokes subprocess.Popen() without integrity verification. This vulnerability is identical to CVE-2026-0848, which was fixed for StanfordSegmenter by adding SHA256 verification. However, the fix was not applied to these additional classes, leaving them susceptible to arbitrary code execution when loading untrusted JAR files.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
nltk
PyPI
< 3.9.43.9.4
Details and references
CVSS 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity from
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Also known as
CVE-2026-12252

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