AI and data stack advisories

Severe, 6 weeks1496Projects326

1496 severe, 6 weeks · 326 projects

NLTKPYSEC-2026-3955

NLTK: server-side request forgery

NLTK

CVE-2026-12372 · Published Aug 9, 2026 · updated Sep 10, 2026

Low3.7
No fix yet
Source advisory

A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in nltk/nltk versions 3.9.4 and the current develop branch. The nltk.pathsec.validate_network_url() function, intended to prevent SSRF by rejecting internal network addresses, fails to reject IPs in the RFC 6598 shared address space (100.64.0.0/10). This occurs because Python's ipaddress module does not classify such addresses as is_private or is_global, and the current guard only checks is_private and a few explicit categories. An attacker who can influence a URL passed to NLTK's network-loading helpers can exploit this vulnerability to make a strict-mode application send requests to shared-address-space hosts, potentially exposing non-public infrastructure reachable from the application host. The impact is limited to SSRF-style confidentiality exposure, with no code execution claimed.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
nltk
PyPI
<= 3.9.4No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Severity from
the CVSS score
Also known as
CVE-2026-12372

More NLTK advisories

All NLTK