CVE-2018-7889

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py en Calibre 3.18 llama a cPickle.load en los datos importados de marcapáginas, lo que permite que atacantes remotos ejecuten código arbitrario mediante un archivo .pickle manipulado. Esto se demuestra por el código Python que contiene una llamada os.system.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-03-08 CVE Reserved
2018-03-08 CVE Published
2024-09-17 CVE Updated
2024-09-17 First Exploit
2024-10-09 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1753870	2024-09-17

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7d	2018-10-12

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Calibre-ebook Search vendor "Calibre-ebook"		Calibre Search vendor "Calibre-ebook" for product "Calibre"				3.18.0 Search vendor "Calibre-ebook" for product "Calibre" and version "3.18.0"		-		Affected