CVE-2026-23842
ChatterBot has Denial of Service via Database Connection Pool Exhaustion
- Published
- Jan 19, 2026
- Updated
- Jan 20, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 25, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 44.6%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1CVE-2026-23842 — High severity Denial-of-Service vulnerability caused by SQLAlchemy connection pool exhaustion in concurrent get_response() calls in ChatterBot ≤ 1.2.10.
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