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[GHSA] GHSA-p3m8-78j2-g5p3 (high) — NLTK: Default ENFORCE=False Disables All pathsec Security Controls

highgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-09-02

GHSA-p3m8-78j2-g5p3 Severity: high CVE: CVE-2026-62388

NLTK: Default ENFORCE=False Disables All pathsec Security Controls

NLTK's pathsec.py security module defaults to ENFORCE=False (line 24), which means all 8 security validation functions only emit RuntimeWarning instead of raising exceptions when violations are detected.

The pathsec module was introduced as the fix for CVE-2024-39705 (arbitr

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p3m8-78j2-g5p3