MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-109956 (CVSS 8.3)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 13, 2026Risk 37/100

NLTK through 3.10.3 contains a path traversal vulnerability in WekaClassifier that allows attackers to bypass nltk.pathsec containment by supplying unvalidated model paths. Attackers controlling the model_filename or model argument can make the weka JVM write files via -d or probe files via -l outside allowed data roots.

Technical details

CVSS

8.3

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

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