CVE-2019-14751

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

3.222

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-14751 are fixed in Python-nltk 3.4.5	Windows
Python libraries for natural language processing (USN-4106-1) python-nltk_3.1-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb	Linux
Python libraries for natural language processing (USN-4106-1) python-nltk_3.4-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb	Linux
Python libraries for natural language processing (USN-4106-1) python-nltk_3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb	Linux
Python libraries for natural language processing (USN-4106-1) python3-nltk_3.1-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb	Linux
Python libraries for natural language processing (USN-4106-1) python3-nltk_3.4-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb	Linux
Python libraries for natural language processing (USN-4106-1) python3-nltk_3.2.5-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-14751 are fixed in Python-nltk for linux 3.4.5	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234