CVE-2026-63310
NLTK before 3.9.3 fails to verify file integrity after downloading packages and before extraction in the downloader module. Attackers can perform man-in-the-middle attacks or DNS poisoning to inject malicious package contents that are extracted without validation.
Scoring
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS base score
- 9.3
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.12%
- CWE
- CWE-494
- Published
- 2026-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-08-24
Affected products
- nltk nltk
- nltk nltk
Weakness type
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