NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) is a suite of open source Python modules, data sets, and tutorials supporting research and development in Natural Language Processing. Versions prior to 3.6.5 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks. The vulnerability is present in PunktSentenceTokenizer, sent_tokenize and word_tokenize. Any users of this class, or these two functions, are vulnerable to the ReDoS attack. In short, a specifically crafted long input to any of these vulnerable functions will cause them to take a significant amount of execution time. If your program relies on any of the vulnerable functions for tokenizing unpredictable user input, then we would strongly recommend upgrading to a version of NLTK without the vulnerability. For users unable to upgrade the execution time can be bounded by limiting the maximum length of an input to any of the vulnerable functions. Our recommendation is to implement such a limit.
References
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https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/1405aad979c6b8080dbbc8e0858f89b2e3690341 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2866 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/2869 | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-f8m6-h2c7-8h9x | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/1405aad979c6b8080dbbc8e0858f89b2e3690341 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2866 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/2869 | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-f8m6-h2c7-8h9x | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
21 Nov 2024, 06:29
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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References | () https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/1405aad979c6b8080dbbc8e0858f89b2e3690341 - Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/2866 - Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/2869 - Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-f8m6-h2c7-8h9x - Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2021-12-23 18:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 06:29
NVD link : CVE-2021-43854
Mitre link : CVE-2021-43854
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-43854
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Products Affected
nltk
- nltk
CWE
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption