HIGH 7.5 PyPI
NLTK Vulnerable To Path Traversal
GHSA-mr7p-25v2-35wr · CVE-2019-14751 · PYSEC-2019-106
Published · Modified
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.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14751
- WEB https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/f59d7ed8df2e0e957f7f247fe218032abdbe9a10
- ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mr7p-25v2-35wr
- WEB https://github.com/mssalvatore/CVE-2019-14751_PoC
- PACKAGE https://github.com/nltk/nltk
- WEB https://github.com/nltk/nltk/blob/3.4.5/ChangeLog
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nltk/PYSEC-2019-106.yaml
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QI4IJGLZQ5S7C5LNRNROHAO2P526XE3D
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZGZSSEJH7RHH3RBUEVWWYT75QU67J7SE
- WEB https://salvatoresecurity.com/zip-slip-in-nltk-cve-2019-14751
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00054.html
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00001.html
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