CVE-2026-79676

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
0.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 78% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: August 25, 2026 (12 days ago)
Last Modified: August 25, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

NLTK versions before 3.10.3 contain a path traversal vulnerability in corpus readers that reopen root-derived paths using built-in open() instead of nltk.pathsec.open(), allowing symlinks to escape trusted roots. Attackers who stage symlinked corpus files under a trusted data root can disclose outside-root content through normal corpus reader methods like channels(), domains(), and synonyms().

CWE

CWE-22

Affected Products

Exploit IntelligenceLightspeed CoreOpenShift LightspeedRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 www.vulncheck.com