CVE-2024-39705

Upstream information

CVE-2024-39705 at MITRE

Description

NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for example, averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v3 Scores

	CNA (CISA-ADP)
Base Score	9.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1227174 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2024:0221-1, published Sat Aug 24 14:48:34 2024
• openSUSE-SU-2024:0222-1, published Fri Jul 26 18:49:20 2024

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5	python3-nltk >= 3.7-bp155.3.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-222
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6	python3-nltk >= 3.7-bp156.4.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-221
openSUSE Leap 15.5	python3-nltk >= 3.7-bp155.3.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-222
openSUSE Leap 15.6	python3-nltk >= 3.7-bp156.4.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-221
openSUSE Tumbleweed	python310-nltk >= 3.8.1-2.1 python311-nltk >= 3.8.1-2.1 python312-nltk >= 3.8.1-2.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-14103

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:00:14 2024
CVE page last modified: Tue Nov 5 11:58:16 2024