GHSA-343m-9fqq-97c7

Duplicate Advisory: NLTK: Symlink-based arbitrary file read in IPIPANCorpusReader, bypasses nltk.pathsec entirely

Published

2026-08-22

Modified

2026-09-02

Sources

github-advisory

Summary

## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-3hhw-38pf-pxj6. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description nltk versions before 3.10.2 contain a symlink-based arbitrary file read vulnerability in IPIPANCorpusReader methods that bypass nltk.pathsec validation entirely. Attackers can place a symlink in the corpus root directory and read arbitrary files accessible to the process by calling channels(), domains(), categories(), or fileids() methods with the symlink filename.

Affected packages

Remediation: No patched version is listed by GitHub.

References

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-343m-9fqq-97c7