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critical 9.8

CVE-2024-6782 in the critical feed json

Calibre Remote Code Execution

published 2024-08-06 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-47814

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
84.1%
EPSS 84.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
1
Metasploit, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

Improper access control in Calibre 6.9.0 ~ 7.14.0 allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution.

Patch / fix

  • calibre Debian 12 6.13.0+repack-2+deb12u4
  • calibre Debian 14, Debian 13 7.16.0+ds-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6782

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-6782 updated cvss 9.8

calibre: Improper access control in Calibre allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution.

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/misc/calibre_exec)
  2. Published

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

84.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Calibre Calibre

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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