CVE-2026-72818 | NLTK up to 3.10.0 TweetTokenizer nltk/tokenize/casual.py TweetTokenizer.tokenize incorrect regex

August 21, 2026 Yanac

A vulnerability was found in NLTK up to 3.10.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function TweetTokenizer.tokenize of the file nltk/tokenize/casual.py of the component TweetTokenizer. The manipulation results in incorrect regular expression.

This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-72818. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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