CVE-2025-6998

EPSS 0.20%

Calibre Web and Autocaliweb have a ReDoS vulnerability

Published: 7/24/2025Modified: 7/28/2025
Also known as:GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m

Description

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.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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