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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 9, 2026· Updated Jul 9, 2026

ChatterBot: Symlink-Following Arbitrary Write via UbuntuCorpusTrainer

CVE-2026-58198

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.

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