MEDIUMCVSS 5.30% EPSS
NLTK from 3.2.5 before 3.10.4 contains an algorithmic complexity vulnerability in TreebankWordTokenizer.span_tokenize that allows remote attackers to cause quadratic CPU consumption through repeated list.pop(0) calls. Attackers can submit long runs of double-quote characters to services span-tokenizing untrusted text, exhausting a CPU core and degrading availability.
Published 2026-11-13 · last modified 2026-11-13
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