CVE-2026-59974: Stanza is a Stanford NLP Python library for tokenization, sentence segmentation, NER, and parsing of many human language
Summary
Stanza is a Python library from Stanford for processing natural language (breaking text into words, sentences, identifying named entities, and analyzing grammar structure). Before version 1.14.0, it had a security flaw where it extracted downloaded files without checking if they tried to escape their intended folder, allowing a malicious file to overwrite important system files and potentially run harmful code.
Solution / Mitigation
Update to version 1.14.0 or later, which fixes this vulnerability.
Vulnerability Details
7.8(high)
EPSS: 0.0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
local
low
none
required
September 16, 2026
Classification
Taxonomy References
Affected Vendors
Related Issues
CVE-2026-63086: text-generation-inference through 3.3.7 contains a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the OpenAI-compat
CVE-2026-34371: LibreChat is a ChatGPT clone with additional features. Prior to 0.8.4, LibreChat trusts the name field returned by the e
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59974
First tracked: September 16, 2026 at 02:08 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 92%