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CVE-2026-126300

MEDIUMCVSS 5.3NVD feed

Published 13 November 2026 · tracked since 14 November 2026

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-tokeniz

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