CVE-2018-7889

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7889
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7889.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-7889
Downstream
Published
2018-03-08T21:29:00Z
Modified
2026-08-07T14:59:34Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
Events
Introduced
a76a438f92f62fd007fdb1d23d086e989f300dea
Last Affected
a76a438f92f62fd007fdb1d23d086e989f300dea
Fixed
aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7d
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:calibre-ebook:calibre:3.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.18.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.18.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.18.0
v3.*
v3.18.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7889.json"