CVE-2019-14751 — Path Traversal in Nltk

CWE-22 — Path Traversal10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.2%
top 12.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
NltkDebian Nltk
Timeline
PublishedAug 22
Latest updateJun 30

Description

NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDnltk/nltk< 3.4.5
▶PyPInltk/nltk< 3.4.5
▶debiandebian/nltk< nltk 3.4.5-1 (bookworm)
▶Debiannltk/nltk< 3.4.5-1+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: salvatoresecurity.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
NLTK Vulnerable To Path Traversal↗2019-08-23
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OSV
NLTK Vulnerable To Path Traversal↗2019-08-23
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OSV
CVE-2019-14751: NLTK Downloader before 3↗2019-08-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
NLTK vulnerability↗2019-08-20
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Debian
CVE-2019-14751: nltk - NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing at...↗2019
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📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
Threat Assessment in Machine Learning based Systems↗2022-06-30
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-14751 python-nltk: directory traversal vulnerability allows attackers to write arbitrary files via ../ [epel-6]↗2019-11-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-14751 python-nltk: directory traversal vulnerability allows attackers to write arbitrary files via ../↗2019-11-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-14751 python-nltk: directory traversal vulnerability allows attackers to write arbitrary files via ../ [fedora-all]↗2019-11-12
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