HIGHCVSS 7.51% EPSS
NLTK before 3.10.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the CCG lexicon parser fromstring that allows remote attackers to exhaust CPU by supplying wide inputs. Attackers can submit lexicon text with long flat bracket bodies or operator chains, triggering quadratic string re-slicing in matchBrackets and augParseCategory that blocks worker threads.
Published 2026-11-13 · last modified 2026-11-13
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