CVE-2026-66393
NLTK versions before 3.9.4 contain an unbounded recursion vulnerability in JSONTaggedDecoder.decode_obj() that allows attackers to cause denial of service by supplying deeply nested JSON structures. Attackers can craft JSON payloads exceeding the recursion limit to trigger an unhandled RecursionError that crashes the Python process.
- Affected products
- Nltk
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.7 HIGH
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.5% (40th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-674
- NVD status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-22
CVE-2026-66393 at NVD
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