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[GHSA] GHSA-3gq4-3j92-5w49 (high) — NLTK: Corpus Reader Sandbox Bypass
GHSA-3gq4-3j92-5w49 Severity: high CVE: CVE-2026-79674
NLTK: Corpus Reader Sandbox Bypass
## Summary
NLTK corpus-reader constructors can still reach outside-root file and database reads before the `nltk.pathsec` sandbox boundary is enforced.
The PoC shows the safe path blocked by `pathsec.open`, then `LinThesaurusCorpusReader` and `PanLexLiteCorpusReader` succeeding in the same process.
## Af
Indicators of compromise
- 474af1f5a94b1b8d53fc2b6defec3a2ce7633b74sha1
- CVE-2026-79674cve
Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3gq4-3j92-5w49