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CVE-2026-58198
Published:July 09, 2026
Updated:July 21, 2026
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.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=0.0.1 <1.2.14
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.2.14
chatterbot (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.0.1 <1.2.14
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.2.14
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
6.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
EPSS
Base Score:
0.10