CVE-2026-12252

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 41/100
Published: 2026-07-04 Modified: 2026-10-25 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: Required
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

In nltk/nltk versions 3.9.3 and earlier, five Stanford interface classes (StanfordPOSTagger, StanfordNERTagger, StanfordParser, StanfordDependencyParser, and StanfordNeuralDependencyParser) are vulnerable to untrusted JAR code execution. These classes accept user-controllable JAR paths and execute them via the `java()` function, which invokes `subprocess.Popen()` without integrity verification. This vulnerability is identical to CVE-2026-0848, which was fixed for StanfordSegmenter by adding SHA256 verification. However, the fix was not applied to these additional classes, leaving them susceptible to arbitrary code execution when loading untrusted JAR files.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
nltk nltk < 3.9.3

References & Advisories (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

41 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10.0 v3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.19%
Raw Score 0.001950
Percentile 9.2%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00195
2026-10-28
0.00195

Intelligence Sources

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