diff --git a/.changeset/nltk-3-10-security.md b/.changeset/nltk-3-10-security.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c30f537b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/nltk-3-10-security.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@e2b/code-interpreter-template": patch
+---
+
+Bump `nltk` to 3.10.0 to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2026-54293)
diff --git a/template/requirements.txt b/template/requirements.txt
index 0afdb280..0f506282 100644
--- a/template/requirements.txt
+++ b/template/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ gensim==4.4.0
 imageio==2.37.3
 joblib==1.5.3
 librosa==0.11.0
-nltk==3.9.4
+nltk==3.10.0
 numpy==2.3.5
 numba==0.66.0
 opencv-python==4.11.0.86