CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedNLTK versions prior to 3.10.3 are vulnerable due to their use of xml.etree.ElementTree for XML parsing, which allows attackers to exploit entity declarations in document DTDs. This can lead to a denial of service by causing excessive memory consumption through crafted XML payloads. Organizations using affected NLTK versions should prioritize updating to mitigate potential service disruptions.
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Original NVD Description
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 use xml.etree.ElementTree to parse XML in multiple modules, which honors entity declarations in document DTDs. Attackers can craft XML payloads with nested entity declarations that expand from hundreds of bytes to megabytes in memory, causing denial of service.
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