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SCA: security update for nltk (GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 421370

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2024-39705)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cgvx-9447-vcch

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421370

Version: Revision 1.7

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.49

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39705

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Threat Score: 4.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-39705