{"id":"CVE-2024-39705","details":"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.","aliases":["GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch","PYSEC-2024-167"],"modified":"2026-04-10T05:14:35.909288Z","published":"2024-06-27T22:15:10.543Z","related":["CGA-q68c-4vvm-g9r9","openSUSE-SU-2024:0221-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:0222-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14103-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rce-in-python-nltk-cve-2024-39705-39706"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2522"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3266"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/nltk/nltk","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"63a63b1a7793aceceb1efc23bc1fd87e7095f9d5"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"3.8.1"}]}}],"versions":["2.0.1rc1","2.0.1rc2","2.0.1rc3","2.0.1rc4","3.0.0b1","3.0.2","3.0.3","3.0.4","3.0.5","3.0a4","3.1","3.2","3.2.1","3.2.2","3.2.3","3.2.4","3.2.5","3.3","3.4","3.4.1","3.4.3","3.4.4","3.5","3.5b1","3.6","3.6.1","3.6.2","3.6.5","3.6.6","3.6.7","3.7","3.8","3.8.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-39705.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}