GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/07/GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m/GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m

Aliases

Published

2025-07-24T21:30:39Z

Modified

2026-07-07T17:56:44Z

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 and Autocaliweb have a ReDoS vulnerability

Details

ReDoS in strip_whitespaces() function in cps/string_helper.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

{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2025-07-28T14:53:43Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2025-07-24T20:15:27Z",
    "severity":  "HIGH"
}

References

Affected packages

PyPI / calibreweb

Package

Name: calibreweb; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:pypi/calibreweb

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Last Affected

0.6.24

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.12

0.6.13

0.6.14

0.6.15

0.6.16

0.6.17

0.6.18

0.6.19

0.6.20

0.6.21

0.6.22

0.6.23

0.6.24

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/07/GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m/GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m.json"