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SCA: security update for nltk (GHSA-mr7p-25v2-35wr)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422669

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - NLTK Downloader before 3.4.5 is vulnerable to a directory traversal, allowing attackers to write arbitrary
 files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an NLTK package (ZIP archive) that is mishandled during extraction.
 (CVE-2019-14751)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mr7p-25v2-35wr

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422669

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14751

cwe: CWE-22