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CVE-2025-64486

UNSCORED

Description

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.

How to fix

Remediation Available
calibreDebian
Fixed in:5.12.0+dfsg-1+deb11u4CVE-2025-64486
Fixed in:6.13.0+repack-2+deb12u5CVE-2025-64486
Fixed in:8.5.0+ds-1+deb13u1CVE-2025-64486
Fixed in:8.14.0+ds+~0.10.5-1CVE-2025-64486

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3.1 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

0.18%probability of exploitation in 30 days
7thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 7% of all known CVEs.

References

Other references2

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