CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-7889

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-03-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Description

gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py in Calibre 3.18 calls cPickle.load on imported bookmark data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python code that contains an os.system call.

Affected configurations

• calibre-ebook calibre 3.18.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References