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SCA: security update for chatterbot (GHSA-v4w8-49pv-mf72)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436837

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots. ChatterBot versions
 up to 1.2.10 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition caused by improper database session and
 connection pool management. Concurrent invocations of the get_response() method can exhaust the underlying
 SQLAlchemy connection pool, resulting in persistent service unavailability and requiring a manual restart
 to recover. Version 1.2.11 fixes the issue. (CVE-2026-23842)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v4w8-49pv-mf72

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436837

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/21/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.39

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-23842

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-23842

cwe: CWE-400