Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting nltk package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-NLTK-17821336
  • published6 Jul 2026
  • disclosed4 Jul 2026
  • creditlihfdgjr

Introduced: 4 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-12252  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for nltk.

Overview

nltk is a Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature via the Stanford Interface Classes. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by supplying a malicious JAR file to the affected Stanford interface classes, which are invoked without integrity verification.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1