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NLTK: Quadratic CPU Exhaustion in `XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment()`
NLTK: Quadratic CPU Exhaustion in `XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment()`
Affected packages
- nltk— before 3.10.3
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
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- EPSS percentile
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EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-vp2x-qp44-57v7
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-81723
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/7808692d451b962711005d954859bb83aabcf8fa
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk
- https://github.com/nltk/nltk/releases/tag/v3.10.3
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-before-3.10.3-quadratic-cpu-exhaustion-via-xmlcorpusview
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vp2x-qp44-57v7
Recommended response stack
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