CVE-2026-23842 HIGH

CVE-2026-23842: ChatterBot has Denial of Service via Database Connection Pool Exhaustion

Vendor Gunthercox
Product ChatterBot
Weakness CWE-400
Published January 19, 2026
Last update January 20, 2026

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 19, 2026 CVE published
January 20, 2026 Record updated