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
2025-07-24T20:15:27.013Z
Modified
2026-04-02T13:05:13.262091Z
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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.

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 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.7.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.7.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.7.0

Database specific

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