CVE-2026-81724 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-81724: NLTK before 3.10.3 Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursion

Vendor Nltk
Product nltk
Weakness CWE-674
Published August 27, 2026
Last update August 27, 2026

CVSS base score

6.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

NLTK before 3.10.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying deeply nested feature-structure input. Attackers can craft trivial payloads with nested brackets that exceed Python's recursion limit and raise an unhandled RecursionError, crashing applications that parse user-supplied feature structures or feature grammars.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 27, 2026 CVE published
August 27, 2026 Record updated