Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting calibre package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.54% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-CALIBRE-284431
  • published8 Mar 2018
  • disclosed8 Mar 2018

Introduced: 8 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-7889  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 calibre.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream calibre package and not the calibre package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.