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    CVE-2026-81723

    NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment() that rescans accumulated XML fragments on every 1 KiB block read. Attackers can provide malformed XML corpus files to cause severe CPU consumption and denial of service through affected readers like BNCCorpusReader.

    Published:Aug 27, 2026
    Last Modified:Aug 31, 2026
    EPS:Aug 27, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00222
    CVSS Score:3.7

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Nltk
    Product
    Nltk

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