NIXPKGS-2026-2090

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calibre: Arbitrary Code Execution in Template Formatter via Book Metadata

Permalink CVE-2026-53511

8.5 HIGH

CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): High (H)
Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): High (H)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)

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calibre: Arbitrary Code Execution in Template Formatter via Book Metadata

calibre is an e-book manager. Prior to 9.10.0, a malicious EPUB, OPF, or PDF file can execute arbitrary Python code when its metadata is read by calibre, including through Add books or Edit books, by embedding a custom column definition with a python: template in calibre:user_metadata that is passed unsanitized to exec() in the template formatter. This issue is fixed in version 9.10.0.