Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-79657
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a remote code execution vulnerability in allowlisted pickle loaders that trust entire module namespaces instead of specific safe callables. Attackers can craft malicious pickle payloads invoking dangerous in-namespace functions like ReppTokenizer._execute and numpy.f2py.crackfortran.myeval through pickle REDUCE to execute arbitrary commands during model or tokenizer artifact loading.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.012
EPSS Ranking 65.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
Products affected by CVE-2026-79657
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:2.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:2.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:2.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.10.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.6.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.6.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.6.6
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.6.7
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.9.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:3.9.4