NLTK before 3.10.4 contains a quadratic-time denial of service vulnerability in ConllCorpusReader._get_srl_instances that allows remote attackers to exhaust CPU through nested span rescans. Attackers can supply a crafted CoNLL SRL corpus with many predicates and span columns, placing the head span last, to pin a core for minutes.
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| Description | NLTK before 3.10.4 contains a quadratic-time denial of service vulnerability in ConllCorpusReader._get_srl_instances that allows remote attackers to exhaust CPU through nested span rescans. Attackers can supply a crafted CoNLL SRL corpus with many predicates and span columns, placing the head span last, to pin a core for minutes. | |
| Title | NLTK before 3.10.4 CPU Denial of Service via ConllCorpusReader srl_instances | |
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Nltk
Nltk nltk |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Nltk
Nltk nltk |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-13T09:36:27.884Z
Reserved: 2026-11-10T20:15:54.612Z
Link: CVE-2026-126297
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-11-13T10:17:34.420
Modified: 2026-11-13T10:17:34.547
Link: CVE-2026-126297
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