CVE-2019-14751

NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package…

published August 22, 2019

CVSS
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EPSS
6%
Percentile
93.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05674 · 93.0th percentile
Published
2019-08-22T15:59Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 15:59Z
    NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package…
    cvelistv5