NLTK before 3.10.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying deeply nested feature-structure input. Attackers can craft trivial payloads with nested brackets that exceed Python's recursion limit and raise an unhandled RecursionError, crashing applications that parse user-supplied feature structures or feature grammars.
MEDIUM
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-81724
CVSS 4.06.9
SeverityMedium
Known exploitedNo
NVD references:
Primary source: NIST National Vulnerability Database