janeczku/calibre-web · Security
Calibre Web and Autocaliweb have a ReDoS vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-2g7m-ph9x-7q7m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-6998
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · 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
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.
CWEs
- CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity