NLTK < 3.9.3 Eval Injection via collocations.py Command-Line Arguments
41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.5epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 95% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) before version 3.9.3 contains an eval injection vulnerability in the nltk.collocations module that allows an attacker who controls command-line arguments to execute arbitrary Python code. When collocations.py is invoked directly, the __main__ block passes command-line arguments directly to eval() as suffixes of BigramAssocMeasures without allowlist validation or sanitization, enabling an attacker to supply a Python expression that escapes the intended attribute lookup and executes arbitrary code including OS commands via the os module.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
ntlk · ntlkpublic PoCs found — 1
cve_referenceaydinnyunus.github.io/2026/06/07/command-injection-nltk-collocations-eval/unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
https://aydinnyunus.github.io/2026/06/07/command-injection-nltk-collocations-eval/https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/66f14096d952ec8f04934f515e027534bd4eb0achttps://github.com/nltk/nltk/pull/3465https://github.com/nltk/nltk/releases/tag/3.9.3https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-eval-injection-via-collocations-py-command-line-arguments