USN-4106-1

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    USN-4106-1

    Published: 20 Aug 2019Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: NLTK vulnerability

    Details: Mike Salvatore discovered that NLTK mishandled crafted ZIP archives during extraction. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4106-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14751

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nltk

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.1-1ubuntu0.1

    Affected versions

    3.0.4-1
    3.0.5-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High