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CVE-2018-7889
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-08T21:29:00.207 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:03:54.853

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.

Affected products

calibre-ebook — calibre

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References

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