Medium 5.5Published Jul 9, 2026

CVE-2026-58198ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 08:30 UTC)

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ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots. Prior to 1.2.14, UbuntuCorpusTrainer.extract() uses a predictable home-rooted output directory (~/ubuntu_data/ubuntu_dialogs) with a check-then-create pattern followed by tar.extractall(path=self.data_path), allowing a local attacker who pre-plants a symlink at the predictable path to cause archive contents to be written through the symlink to an attacker-chosen directory. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.14.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59, CWE-367
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Jul 9, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

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References

https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/commit/82817b5c28bfd43e682b991bcc76e6f780726dbf
https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/2445
https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/releases/tag/1.2.14
https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/security/advisories/GHSA-wvrh-2f4m-924v

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