SB2026031817 - Denial of service in Natural Language Toolkit



SB2026031817 - Denial of service in Natural Language Toolkit

Published: March 18, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB2026031817
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Partial DoS

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: N/A)

CWE-ID: CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in JSONTaggedDecoder.decode_obj(). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.