CVE-2018-7889

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-502

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1753870Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7dPatch
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1753870Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7dPatch

Timeline

Published: Mar 8, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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