CVE-2024-39705

Publication date 27 June 2024

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

NLTK through 3.8.1 allows remote code execution if untrusted packages have pickled Python code, and the integrated data package download functionality is used. This affects, for example, averaged_perceptron_tagger and punkt.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nltk 24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was ignored [changes too intrusive]
24.04 LTS noble Ignored changes too intrusive
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored changes too intrusive
20.04 LTS focal Ignored changes too intrusive
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored changes too intrusive
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored changes too intrusive
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored changes too intrusive

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H