{"id":81759,"date":"2026-07-09T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-58198-chatterbot-symlink-following-arbitrary-write-via-ubuntucorpustrainer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:17:06","slug":"cve-2026-58198-chatterbot-symlink-following-arbitrary-write-via-ubuntucorpustrainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-58198-chatterbot-symlink-following-arbitrary-write-via-ubuntucorpustrainer\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-58198 &#8211; ChatterBot: Symlink-Following Arbitrary Write via UbuntuCorpusTrainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-58198<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 9, 2026, 7:17 p.m. | 31\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  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.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 5.5 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-58198 Published : July 9, 2026, 7:17 p.m. | 31\u00a0minutes ago 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}