Bug 2294671 (CVE-2024-39705) - CVE-2024-39705 nltk: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via untrusted packages
Summary: CVE-2024-39705 nltk: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via untrusted packages
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-39705
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2294672
Blocks: 2294670
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Reported: 2024-06-28 01:30 UTC by Patrick Del Bello
Modified: 2024-07-03 14:15 UTC (History)
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Description Patrick Del Bello 2024-06-28 01:30:58 UTC 
NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for example, averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

References:
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch
Comment 1 Patrick Del Bello 2024-06-28 01:31:46 UTC 
Created python-nltk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2294672]
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