NLTK from 3.2.5 before 3.10.4 contains an algorithmic complexity vulnerability in TreebankWordTokenizer.span_tokenize that allows remote attackers to cause quadratic CPU consumption through repeated list.pop(0) calls. Attackers can submit long runs of double-quote characters to services span-tokenizing untrusted text, exhausting a CPU core and degrading availability.
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| Description | NLTK from 3.2.5 before 3.10.4 contains an algorithmic complexity vulnerability in TreebankWordTokenizer.span_tokenize that allows remote attackers to cause quadratic CPU consumption through repeated list.pop(0) calls. Attackers can submit long runs of double-quote characters to services span-tokenizing untrusted text, exhausting a CPU core and degrading availability. | |
| Title | NLTK from 3.2.5 before 3.10.4 CPU Exhaustion via TreebankWordTokenizer.span_tokenize | |
| First Time appeared |
Nltk
Nltk nltk |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-407 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:nltk:nltk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Nltk
Nltk nltk |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-13T09:36:25.918Z
Reserved: 2026-11-10T20:15:54.612Z
Link: CVE-2026-126300
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-11-13T10:17:34.917
Modified: 2026-11-13T10:17:35.043
Link: CVE-2026-126300
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