{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00015391","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Duplicate Advisory: FileSystemPathPointer.open() sandbox check is dead code — arbitrary file read via file:// protocol","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"withdrawn","identifiers":["GHSA-79ph-w9m5-4v5m"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for nltk. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-6354757359f0247a595caf3c25ea6a2a"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-09-02T14:47:46.000Z","value":"6.5 high","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-6354757359f0247a595caf3c25ea6a2a"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-6354757359f0247a595caf3c25ea6a2a","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-79ph-w9m5-4v5m","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-79ph-w9m5-4v5m","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-02T02:21:43.711Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-6354757359f0247a595caf3c25ea6a2a"],"technology":"nltk","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Duplicate Advisory\n\nThis advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-72r2-7mfr-5xr9. This link is maintained to preserve external references.\n\n## Original Description\nNLTK versions before 3.10.0 contain a logic bug in FileSystemPathPointer.open() where the sandbox validation check compares a normalized path against itself, making the security check permanently inert. Attackers can pass file:// URLs to nltk.data.load() to read arbitrary files accessible to the process user, including credentials and configuration files.","public_affected_ranges":["<= 3.9.3"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-03T10:03:31.362Z","source_updated_at":"2026-09-02T14:47:46.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-08-22T15:31:03.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-02T02:21:43.711Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}