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CVE-2026-78681

Exploit

NLTK before 3.10.3 Entity Expansion DoS via ElementTree

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.
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Nltk ≫ Nltk Version < 3.10.3
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.28% 0.198
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
disclosure@vulncheck.com 8.7 0 0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
disclosure@vulncheck.com 7.5 3.9 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-97qj-x29f-37w7
Vendor Advisory
Exploit
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-before-entity-expansion-dos-via-elementtree
Third Party Advisory