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CVE-2026-78681

NLTK

Description

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service.

CVSS 7.5EPSS 0.27799999999999997%Risk 0.77
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Published
2026-08-25 02:16:52
Affected versions
<3.10.3
Type
Library
Last modified
2026-08-26 17:17:15
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H