CVE-2025-6998 (GCVE-0-2025-6998)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-24 19:39
Modified
2025-07-25 13:17
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| Calibre Web | Calibre Web |
Version: 0.6.24 < |
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