CVE•Published 2026-08-25•Modified 2026-08-25•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-78680
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
NLTK versions before 3.10.3 fail to use validated absolute paths when invoking the Graphviz dot binary in dependencygraph.dot2img and AlignedSent._repr_svg_, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious dot binary in the search path or current working directory. Attackers can exploit bare-name binary resolution on Windows via the current working directory or on Unix-like systems via relative PATH entries to execute their binary instead of the legitimate Graphviz tool.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-25
Modified 2026-08-25
External references
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Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-78680Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-78680Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-78680Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
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Google dork
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Known PoCs on GitHub (1)
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