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[GHSA] GHSA-rhp5-r9x4-f5g2 (critical) — NLTK: Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in TransitionParser Allows Remote Code Execution

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-09-08

GHSA-rhp5-r9x4-f5g2 Severity: critical CVE: CVE-2026-78683

NLTK: Unsafe Pickle Deserialization in TransitionParser Allows Remote Code Execution

## Summary

The NLTK library's `TransitionParser.parse()` method deserializes model files using `pickle_load()` with the default `restricted=False` parameter, allowing arbitrary Python code execution when loading a malicious model file. The library provi

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Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rhp5-r9x4-f5g2