CVE-2026-72818: fallo de gravedad alta en nltk
NLTK TweetTokenizer URL Pattern Backtracks Catastrophically on Naked-Domain-Like Input
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21Vexday Risk Score
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ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.7%
The URLS regular expression in nltk/tokenize/casual.py, compiled into TweetTokenizer.WORD_RE and applied by TweetTokenizer.tokenize, contains a naked-domain branch whose domain-label prefix [a-z0-9]+(?:[.\-][a-z0-9]+)* is unbounded. Input consisting of many alternating label separators can be partitioned in exponentially many ways, and because the branch also requires a trailing top-level domain that such input never supplies, the engine explores those partitions before failing at each offset. A few kilobytes of input therefore consumes seconds to minutes of single-threaded CPU, and the HANG_RE substitution performed before matching does not collapse the pattern. TweetTokenizer is intended for tokenizing untrusted social-media text, so any service that applies it, or the module-level casual_tokenize, to submitted text can be stalled per request without authentication. Version 3.10.1 bounds the label repetition.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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Referencias
https://github.com/nltk/nltkhttps://github.com/nltk/nltk/blob/3.9.4/nltk/tokenize/casual.pyhttps://github.com/nltk/nltk/issues/3704https://github.com/nltk/nltk/releases/tag/v3.10.1https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-tweettokenizer-url-pattern-backtracks-catastrophically-on-naked-domain-like-input