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CVE-2026-79657

NVD CRITICAL 9.8 · published 2026-08-25 · 1 on the wire

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a remote code execution vulnerability in allowlisted pickle loaders that trust entire module namespaces instead of specific safe callables. Attackers can craft malicious pickle payloads invoking dangerous in-namespace functions like ReppTokenizer._execute and numpy.f2py.crackfortran.myeval through pickle REDUCE to execute arbitrary commands during model or tokenizer artifact loading.

Exploited in the wild

Not on KEV

Not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue as of the last daily pull. Absence is not proof of safety.

EPSS · 30-day forecast

1%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 67th percentile of all CVEs. A forecast; KEV outranks it.

CVSS · NVD

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Internet exposure

No exposure census on this CVE's dispatches.

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