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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 24, 2026· Updated Aug 10, 2026

CVE-2025-71408

CVE-2025-71408

Description

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker who controls command-line arguments to execute arbitrary Python code. When collocations.py is invoked directly, the __main__ block passes command-line arguments directly to eval() as suffixes of BigramAssocMeasures without allowlist validation or sanitization, enabling an attacker to supply a Python expression that escapes the intended attribute lookup and executes arbitrary code including OS commands via the os module.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
nltkPyPI
< 3.9.33.9.3

Affected products

2
  • Nltk/Nltkllm-fuzzy2 versions
    <3.9.3+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: <3.9.3
    • cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <3.9.3

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