Security Advisory

CVE-2026-63311

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-22 14:12:40

Last updated 2026-08-22 14:12:40

Assigner VulnCheck

CVSS score 6.9

State PUBLISHED

Description

NLTK before 3.10.0 (affected versions <= 3.9.4) contains a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the validate_network_url() function in nltk/pathsec.py. The _resolve_hostname() helper catches OSError and ValueError during socket.getaddrinfo() and returns an empty list; when DNS resolution fails, the validation loop executes no IP checks and the function fails open, allowing urlopen() to proceed without validation. An attacker who can trigger DNS resolution failures or use DNS rebinding can bypass SSRF protections and reach restricted network resources, including cloud metadata endpoints (e.g., 169.254.169.254).

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