VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-7889

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability4.51%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-03-08
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Primary references