CVE-2025-6998

Published July 24th, 2025

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECTS

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.

janeczku/calibre-web

:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database

GitHub

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gelbphoenix/autocaliweb

(MOVED TO CODEBERG) :books: Web managing platform for eBooks, eComics and PDFs

GitHub

233