CVE-2026-58198
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.01
BB Relevance:
36/100
Published: 2026-07-09
Modified: 2026-10-25
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Low Complexity
No Interaction
Conf. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Local
AC:
Low
PR:
Low
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
High
I:
None
A:
None
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.