GHSA-pf76-q698-37v8
Duplicate Advisory: Uncontrolled recursion in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader causes unhandled RecursionError (DoS) via deeply nested feature-structure input
Summary
## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-cw6x-m8jw-qmrh.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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | nltk | — | — |
Remediation: No patched version is listed by GitHub.
References
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