CVE-2021-3828

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3828
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-27 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-25 18:18:00 UTC
Descriptionnltk is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-697

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nltk Nltk All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Resolved ReDoS vulnerability in Corpus Reader (#2816) · nltk/nltk@277711a · GitHub MISC github.com
huntr: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Python Vulnerability in nltk CONFIRM huntr.dev
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Srikanth Prathi (@srikanthprathi)

LEGACY: Tom Aarsen (@tomaarsen)

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182071 Debian Security Update for nltk (CVE-2021-3828)
  • 980587 Python (pip) Security Update for nltk (GHSA-2ww3-fxvq-293j)
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