mediumCVSS 3.7Vulnerability

GHSA-3m7f-6hxv-6796

## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-8mpw-7fpc-4gqj. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in Pl196xCorpusReader that allows attackers to cause quadratic CPU consumption by supplying malformed TEI blocks with many unmatched opening tags. Attackers can exploit lazy regex patterns in the read_block method through public APIs like words() and tagged_words() to force repeated rescans and achieve near-quadratic runtime growth.

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-3m7f-6hxv-6796
severity
medium
summary
Duplicate Advisory: Pl196xCorpusReader has quadratic ReDoS on malformed TEI blocks
cvss_score
3.7
cve_id
GHSA-3m7f-6hxv-6796
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-08-27T18:32:30Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3m7f-6hxv-6796
ghsa_updated
2026-09-02T14:49:57Z

Related Entities (4)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]pip/nltk

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]pip/nltk

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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