Bug 2543418 - CVE-2026-79657 python-nltk: NLTK before 3.10.3 Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-79657 python-nltk: NLTK before 3.10.3 Remote Code Execution via Unsa...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python-nltk
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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urgent
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Assignee: José Matos
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-79657
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Reported: 2026-09-29 18:03 UTC by aedmond
Modified: 2026-09-29 18:03 UTC (History)
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Description aedmond 2026-09-29 18:03:22 UTC
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NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a remote code execution vulnerability in allowlisted pickle loaders that trust entire module namespaces instead of specific safe callables. Attackers can craft malicious pickle payloads invoking dangerous in-namespace functions like ReppTokenizer._execute and numpy.f2py.crackfortran.myeval through pickle REDUCE to execute arbitrary commands during model or tokenizer artifact loading.


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