CVE-2026-126303

HIGH 7.5

NLTK before 3.10.4 Denial of Service via SteppingRecursiveDescentParser.parse()

CVSS Score

7.5

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

NLTK before 3.10.4 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in SteppingRecursiveDescentParser.parse() that lacks any max_time deadline or step limit. Attackers influencing the grammar can supply an ambiguous self-embedding grammar and short token input to force unbounded top-down search, pinning CPU cores and exhausting worker pools.

CWE	CWE-400
Vendor	nltk
Product	nltk
Published	Nov 13, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Affected Versions

nltk / nltk

0 < 3.10.4

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

github.com: https://github.com/nltk/nltk/security/advisories/GHSA-8fx7-8jr8-84rv vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nltk-before-3.10.4-denial-of-service-via-steppingrecursivedescentparser-parse

Credits

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