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archivevulnerability · 08 Sep 2026 · 16:39 UTC

GHSA-f833-7jw8-xwrv: NLTK: Symlink-based sandbox bypass in FramenetCorpusReader (bypasses the fix for CVE-2026-54292)

VULNCVE-2026-62384source · GTH
HIGHHigh-risk vulnerability — CVSS 7.5

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This is a **new, distinct vulnerability**: a bypass of the fix already published as [GHSA-xh95-f55m-82fw](https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-xh95-f55m-82fw) ("Path traversal in NLTK FramenetCorpusReader.frame() allows arbitrary XML file read, bypassing the nltk.pathsec sandbox"), not a duplicate of it. ## Summary The original advisory was fixed (PR [#3581](https://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/3581)) by adding `_reject_unsafe_path_component()`, which blocks literal `/`, `\`, `..`, and Windows drive prefixes in caller-/corpus-supplied names. It never resolves symlinks. …

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