CVE-2026-81723EPSS p18.7%

CVE-2026-81723CVE-2026-81723

Description

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a quadratic CPU exhaustion vulnerability in XMLCorpusView._read_xml_fragment() that rescans accumulated XML fragments on every 1 KiB block read. Attackers can provide malformed XML corpus files to cause severe CPU consumption and denial of service through affected readers like BNCCorpusReader.

Scoring

CVSS 3.7 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS0.28% probability of exploitation · percentile 18.7% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-09-24
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.