CVE-2018-7889
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-08 21:00
Modified
2024-09-17 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1753870Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7dPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1753870Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7dPatch
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