high7.5
CVE-2021-3828
NLTK Vulnerable to REDoS
Impact
The nltk package is vulnerable to ReDoS (regular expression denial of service). An attacker that is able to provide as an input to the [`_read_comparison_block()`(https://github.com/nltk/nltk/blob/23f4b1c4b4006b0cb3ec278e801029557cec4e82/nltk/corpus/reader/comparative_sents.py#L259) function in the file `nltk/corpus/reader/comparative_sents.py` may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | nltk | < 3.6.4 | 3.6.4 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Nltk | Nltk | through 3.6.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/277711ab1dec729e626b27aab6fa35ea5efbd7e6
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/d19aed43-75bc-4a03-91a0-4d0bb516bc32
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2ww3-fxvq-293j
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3828
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/2816
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nltk/PYSEC-2021-356.yaml