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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.2

CVE-2024-7009 json

Calibre SQL Injection

published 2024-08-06 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-48030

cvss
4.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.9%
EPSS 13.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unsanitized user-input in Calibre <= 7.15.0 allow users with permissions to perform full-text searches to achieve SQL injection on the SQLite database.

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-2024-7009

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-2024-7009 updated cvss 4.2

calibre: Unsanitized user-input allows users with permissions to perform full-text searches to achieve SQL injection

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

13.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • starlabs.sg https://starlabs.sg/advisories/24/24-7009/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • Calibre Calibre
  • kovidgoyal calibre

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

References

Sources

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