highCVSS 5.9Vulnerability

GHSA-vf76-f5cp-9846

## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-w3v8-gmh9-3wv7. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the tgrep module. The _tgrep_node_action function compiles user-supplied regular expressions embedded in /regex/ pattern nodes and executes them via re.search against tree node labels without any validation or timeout. An attacker who controls the tgrep pattern (e.g., via tgrep_positions() or tgrep_compile() exposed to external input) can supply a pattern that triggers catastrophic backtracking, causing indefinite CPU saturation that blocks the Python process.

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-vf76-f5cp-9846
summary
Duplicate Advisory: ReDoS in nltk.tgrep via unvalidated user-supplied regular expressions
severity
high
cvss_score
5.9
cve_id
GHSA-vf76-f5cp-9846
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-08-31T21:31:52Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vf76-f5cp-9846
ghsa_updated
2026-09-02T14:49:38Z

Related Entities (4)

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]pip/nltk

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]pip/nltk

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