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CVE-2026-58198

CVE-2026-58198 · ChatterBot: Symlink-Following Arbitrary Write via UbuntuCorpusTrainer

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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 · EPSS 0.1% · Fix available

Published
Updated

Stack: python

Affected products and versions

  • chatterbot

    Versions
    • < 1.2.14: Affected

    No fix published

  • chatterbot PyPI

    Versions
    • 0.0.0
    • 0.0.1
    • 0.0.2
    • 0.0.3
    • 0.0.4
    • 0.0.5
    • 0.1.0
    • 0.1.1
    • 0.1.2
    • 0.2.0
    • 0.2.1
    • 0.2.2
    • 0.2.3
    • 0.2.4
    • 0.2.5
    • 0.2.6
    • 0.2.7
    • 0.2.8
    • 0.2.9
    • 0.3.0
    • 0.3.1
    • 0.3.2
    • 0.3.3
    • 0.3.4
    • 0.3.5
    • 0.3.6
    • 0.3.7
    • 0.4.0
    • 0.4.1
    • 0.4.10
    • 0.4.11
    • 0.4.12
    • 0.4.13
    • 0.4.2
    • 0.4.3
    • 0.4.4
    • 0.4.5
    • 0.4.6
    • 0.4.7
    • 0.4.8
    • 0.4.9
    • 0.5.0
    • 0.5.1
    • 0.5.2
    • 0.5.3
    • 0.5.4
    • 0.5.5
    • 0.6.0
    • 0.6.1
    • 0.6.2
    • 0.6.3
    • 0.7.0
    • 0.7.1
    • 0.7.2
    • 0.7.3
    • 0.7.4
    • 0.7.5
    • 0.7.6
    • 0.8.0
    • 0.8.1
    • 0.8.2
    • 0.8.3
    • 0.8.4
    • 0.8.5
    • 0.8.6
    • 0.8.7
    • 1.0.0
    • 1.0.0a1
    • 1.0.0a2
    • 1.0.0a3
    • 1.0.0a4
    • 1.0.1
    • 1.0.2
    • 1.0.3
    • 1.0.4
    • 1.0.5
    • 1.0.7
    • 1.0.8
    • 1.1.0
    • 1.1.0a7
    • 1.2.0
    • 1.2.1
    • 1.2.10
    • 1.2.11
    • 1.2.12
    • 1.2.13
    • 1.2.2
    • 1.2.3
    • 1.2.4
    • 1.2.5
    • 1.2.6
    • 1.2.7
    • 1.2.8
    • 1.2.9
    Affected ranges
    • ECOSYSTEM: < 1.2.14

    Update to 1.2.14

Original sources

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