CVE-2026-58198

ChatterBot (Python) vulnerability CVE-2026-58198: UbuntuCorpusTrainer.extract() uses a predictable home path (~/.ubuntu_data/ubuntu_dialogs) with a check-then-create pattern, then tar.extractall(path=self.data_path). An attacker who pre-places a symlink at that path can cause archived contents to...

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

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 /ubuntudata/ubuntudialogs with a check-then-create pattern followed by tar.extractallpath=self.datapath, allowing a...

EUVD-2026-42685

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 /ubuntudata/ubuntudialogs with a check-then-create pattern followed by tar.extractallpath=self.datapath, allowing a...

CVE-2026-58203

A flaw was found in the pydantic-settings component. When configured to handle nested secrets, this vulnerability allows an attacker to read sensitive files from outside the designated secrets directory. By placing a specially crafted symbolic link within the secrets directory, an attacker can...

Symlink Attack

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via the Docker task driver when a job submitter is able to bind-mount a host path into a container despite volume bind mounts being disabled. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to read and write files on the host...

Symlink Attack

Overview github.com/hashicorp/nomad/helper/escapingfs is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers docker, podman, non-containerized applications executable, Java, and virtual machines qemu across on-prem and clouds at scale. Nomad is supported on Linux, Windows,...

Security Bulletin: Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack

Summary The consul-template library before version 0.42.1 is vulnerable to a path redirection issue in the writeToFile template helper that may allow template output to be written outside the intended directory or to overwrite an existing file. This vulnerability CVE-2026-14361 is fixed in...

CVE-2026-14361 Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack

The consul-template library before version 0.42.1 is vulnerable to a path redirection issue in the writeToFile template helper that may allow template output to be written outside the intended directory or to overwrite an existing file. This vulnerability CVE-2026-14361 is fixed in consul-templat...

CVE-2026-14361 Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack

The consul-template library before version 0.42.1 is vulnerable to a path redirection issue in the writeToFile template helper that may allow template output to be written outside the intended directory or to overwrite an existing file. This vulnerability CVE-2026-14361 is fixed in consul-templat...

Symlink Attack

Overview bbot is an OSINT automation for hackers. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack in the unarchive process when extracting zip or 7z archives containing symlink entries with a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. An...

Symlink Attack

Overview std/os is a Go standard library package std/os Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. Go Vulnerability Report:On Unix systems, opening a file in an os.Root improperly follows symlinks to locations outside of the Root when the final path component of the a pat...

PYSEC-2026-1374 filelock Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Symlink Vulnerability in SoftFileLock

Vulnerability Summary Title: Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use TOCTOU Symlink Vulnerability in SoftFileLock Affected Component: filelock package - SoftFileLock class File: src/filelock/soft.py lines 17-27 CWE: CWE-362, CWE-367, CWE-59 --- Description A TOCTOU race condition vulnerability exists in the...

PYSEC-2026-1375 filelock has a TOCTOU race condition which allows symlink attacks during lock file creation

Impact A Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use TOCTOU race condition allows local attackers to corrupt or truncate arbitrary user files through symlink attacks. The vulnerability exists in both Unix and Windows lock file creation where filelock checks if a file exists before opening it with OTRUNC. An attack...

PYSEC-2026-1120 Ansible symlink attack vulnerability

An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path...

Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins allow insecure creation of SQLite databases

Summary The SQLite databases are created at predictable static paths in /tmp. Any user can therefore create a symlink at these paths in /tmp pointing to arbitrary files. The monitoring scripts then follows these symlinks and then creates their database at the symlink target. This becomes really...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-58203

pydantic-settings provides settings management using Pydantic. From 2.12.0 until 2.14.2, NestedSecretsSettingsSource reads secret values from files in a configured secretsdir. When secretsnestedsubdir=True, a directory entry inside secretsdir that is a symbolic link pointing outside secretsdir is...

CVE-2026-59195

pnpm is a package manager. Prior to 10.34.4 and 11.8.0, pnpm accepts package names from the env lockfile configDependencies section and uses those names directly when creating config dependency symlinks under nodemodules/.pnpm-config. A malicious repository can commit a crafted pnpm-lock.yaml who...

CVE-2026-58203

pydantic-settings provides settings management using Pydantic. From 2.12.0 until 2.14.2, NestedSecretsSettingsSource reads secret values from files in a configured secretsdir. When secretsnestedsubdir=True, a directory entry inside secretsdir that is a symbolic link pointing outside secretsdir is...

USN-8512-1: Gzip vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Gzip's gzexe utility handled temporary files in an insecure manner. When the mktemp utility was not available, gzexe constructed a temporary file path based on the process ID, which could be predicted. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary...

PYSEC-2026-808 Fabric vulnerable to symlink attack on tmp files

Fabric before 1.1.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on 1 a /tmp/fab..tar file or 2 certain other files in the top level of /tmp/...