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.
Published: 2019-08-22
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 3.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-0091 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mr7p-25v2-35wr NLTK Vulnerable To Path Traversal
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4106-1 NLTK vulnerability
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.09308}

epss

{'score': 0.03222}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:26:38.633Z

Reserved: 2019-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-14751

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-08-22T16:15:10.213

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:27:16.227

Link: CVE-2019-14751

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