mediumCVSS 5.3Vulnerability
GHSA-pf76-q698-37v8
## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-cw6x-m8jw-qmrh. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description NLTK before 3.10.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying deeply nested feature-structure input. Attackers can craft trivial payloads with nested brackets that exceed Python's recursion limit and raise an unhandled RecursionError, crashing applications that parse user-supplied feature structures or feature grammars.
Properties
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-pf76-q698-37v8
- severity
- medium
- summary
- Duplicate Advisory: Uncontrolled recursion in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader causes unhandled RecursionError (DoS) via deeply nested feature-structure input
- cvss_score
- 5.3
- cve_id
- GHSA-pf76-q698-37v8
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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-pf76-q698-37v8
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-09-02T14:33:13Z
Related Entities (4)
VULNERABLE_TO (1)
←[Software]pip/nltk
AFFECTS (1)
→[Software]pip/nltk
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Uncontrolled Recursion
REPORTED_BY (1)
→[Source]GitHub Advisory Database
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