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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | ChatterBot: Symlink-Following Arbitrary Write via UbuntuCorpusTrainer | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-367 CWE-59 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-07-09T19:12:29.625Z
Reserved: 2026-06-29T17:09:25.872Z
Link: CVE-2026-58198
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Updated: 2026-07-09T19:30:17Z