CVE-2019-14751

Published Aug 22, 2019 CVSS 3.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 5.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-0091 NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mr7p-25v2-35wr NLTK Vulnerable To Path Traversal
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4106-1 NLTK vulnerability
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.09308}

epss

{'score': 0.03222}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 12:26 AM
Reserved
Aug 7, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 22, 2019, 4:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:18 AM