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1 vulnerability by gunthercox
CVE-2026-23842 (GCVE-0-2026-23842)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-19 18:39 – Updated: 2026-01-20 20:05
VLAI?
Title
ChatterBot has Denial of Service via Database Connection Pool Exhaustion
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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| gunthercox | ChatterBot |
Affected:
< 1.2.11
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