CVE-2026-62383 — nltk IPIPANCorpusReader Symlink Arbitrary File Read
nltk versions before 3.10.2 contain a symlink-based arbitrary file read vulnerability in IPIPANCorpusReader methods that bypass nltk.pathsec validation entirely. Attackers can p…
Published: 2026-08-22 · CVSS: 6.8 · CVSS 4.0
nltk versions before 3.10.2 contain a symlink-based arbitrary file read vulnerability in IPIPANCorpusReader methods that bypass nltk.pathsec validation entirely. Attackers can place a symlink in the corpus root directory and read arbitrary files accessible to the process by calling channels(), domains(), categories(), or fileids() methods with the symlink filename.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7