{"answers":{"affected":"3 open source packages ship an affected version, including nltk. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-80206 exists.","fix":"Upgrade nltk to 3.10.3 or later.","what":"CVE-2026-80206 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in nltk, published on 26 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-80206 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-80206 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in nltk, published on 26 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-80206 exists.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- nltk (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 3.10.3\n- nltk (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 3.10.3\n- nltk (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 3.10.3\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-80206/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-80206/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-80206","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-80206/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-80206","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-80206","ECHO-45e2-48ef-7336","GHSA-w3v8-gmh9-3wv7","MINI-mvr5-3rph-8wf8","PYSEC-2026-3751","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-80206"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Python NLP library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can cause CPU exhaustion and service disruption in NLTK by supplying malicious regex patterns to the tgrep module.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"VulnCheck","cpe":[{"product":"nltk","vendor":"nltk"}],"cvss":{"score":8.2,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-1333","name":"Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity"}],"description":"NLTK before 3.10.3 contains a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the tgrep module. The _tgrep_node_action function compiles user-supplied regular expressions embedded in /regex/ pattern nodes and executes them via re.search against tree node labels without any validation or timeout. An attacker who controls the tgrep pattern (e.g., via tgrep_positions() or tgrep_compile() exposed to external input) can supply a pattern that triggers catastrophic backtracking, causing indefinite CPU saturation that blocks the Python process.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"NLTK 3.10.2 Regular Expression Denial of Service via tgrep","id":"CVE-2026-80206","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":3,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"APITable through 1.13.0-beta.1 Missing Authentication on the Internal Notification Create Endpoint","id":"CVE-2026-80207"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3.10.3"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"nltk","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-w3v8-gmh9-3wv7"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3.10.3"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"nltk","purl":"pkg:pypi/nltk","source":"GHSA-w3v8-gmh9-3wv7"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["3.10.3"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"nltk","purl":"pkg:pypi/nltk","source":"PYSEC-2026-3751"}],"prev":{"headline":"NLTK before 3.10.0 ReDoS via Text.findall() unvalidated regex","id":"CVE-2026-80205"},"products":["nltk"],"published":"2026-08-26","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Arbitrary Code Execution in NLTK StanfordSegmenter via Untrusted JAR Loading","id":"CVE-2026-0848","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-05"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Zip Slip Vulnerability in nltk/nltk Leading to Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2025-14009","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-02-18"},{"cvss_score":9.4,"headline":"NLTK before 3.10.0 Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization","id":"CVE-2026-78683","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-25"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"NLTK before 3.10.3 Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Pickle Deserialization","id":"CVE-2026-79657","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-25"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"NLTK before 3.10.3 JVM Argument Injection via Per-Call Options","id":"CVE-2026-79675","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"NLTK 3.10.2 Path Traversal via corpus-reader constructors","id":"CVE-2026-79674","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-25"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"nltk PorterStemmer before 3.10.3 Quadratic-time DoS","id":"CVE-2026-81722","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-27"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-26","vendors":["nltk"]},"summary":"Attackers can cause CPU exhaustion and service disruption in NLTK by supplying malicious regex patterns to the tgrep module.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-80206/"}