CVE-2019-14751
NLTK Vulnerable To Path Traversal
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.2%
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.
How to fix CVE-2019-14751
To remediate CVE-2019-14751, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/nltk—upgrade to 3.4.5-1 or later
- —upgrade to 3.4.5 or later
- —upgrade to f59d7ed8df2e0e957f7f247fe218032abdbe9a10 or later
Is CVE-2019-14751 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 3.4.5-1
- from 0, < 3.4.5
- from 0, < f59d7ed8df2e0e957f7f247fe218032abdbe9a10 | from 0, < 3.4.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |