CVE-2025-6998

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6998

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-6998.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-6998

Aliases

Published

2025-07-24T19:39:17.709Z

Modified

2026-07-15T01:49:11.797847517Z

Severity

8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Calibre Web 0.6.24 & Autocaliweb 0.7.0 - ReDoS

Details

ReDoS in stripwhitespaces() function in cps/stringhelper.py in Calibre Web and Autocaliweb allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service via specially crafted username parameter that triggers catastrophic backtracking during login. This issue affects Calibre Web: 0.6.24 (Nicolette); Autocaliweb: from 0.7.0 before 0.7.1.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "Fluid Attacks",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/6xxx/CVE-2025-6998.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gelbphoenix/autocaliweb

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/gelbphoenix/autocaliweb

Events

Introduced

35dece44cbf4ca715be07f4d62b95f0391491ac0

Fixed

84477b55caff47e54d93384015fa694b6eb9b5be

Database specific

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.7.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.7.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "DESCRIPTION"
    ]
}

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

Events

Introduced

0af52f205358b0147ee3430f9e6c8fe007c0ea77

Last affected

0af52f205358b0147ee3430f9e6c8fe007c0ea77

Database specific

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.6.24"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.6.24"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.24

v0.*

v0.7.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-6998.json"