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2 vulnerabilities found for calibre by kovidgoyal

CVE-2025-64486 (GCVE-0-2025-64486)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2025-11-07 23:25
Modified
2025-11-07 23:25
CWE
  • CWE-73 - External Control of File Name or Path
Summary
calibre is an e-book manager. In versions 8.13.0 and prior, calibre does not validate filenames when handling binary assets in FB2 files, allowing an attacker to write arbitrary files on the filesystem when viewing or converting a malicious FictionBook file. This can be leveraged to achieve arbitrary code execution. This issue is fixed in version 8.14.0.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kovidgoyal calibre Version: < 8.14.0
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CVE-2025-64486 (GCVE-0-2025-64486)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-07 23:25
Modified
2025-11-07 23:25
CWE
  • CWE-73 - External Control of File Name or Path
Summary
calibre is an e-book manager. In versions 8.13.0 and prior, calibre does not validate filenames when handling binary assets in FB2 files, allowing an attacker to write arbitrary files on the filesystem when viewing or converting a malicious FictionBook file. This can be leveraged to achieve arbitrary code execution. This issue is fixed in version 8.14.0.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kovidgoyal calibre Version: < 8.14.0
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Show details on NVD website


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