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Security Policy

Reporting a Vulnerability

Please report security issues to [email protected]

Supported Versions

To receive fixes for security vulnerabilities it is required to always upgrade to the latest version of Calibre-Web. See https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/releases/latest for the latest release.

History

Fixed in Description CVE number
3rd July 2018 Guest access acts as a backdoor
V 0.6.7 Hardcoded secret key for sessions CVE-2020-12627
V 0.6.13 Calibre-Web Metadata cross site scripting CVE-2021-25964
V 0.6.13 Name of Shelves are only visible to users who can access the corresponding shelf Thanks to @ibarrionuevo
V 0.6.13 JavaScript could get executed in the description field. Thanks to @ranjit-git and Hagai Wechsler (WhiteSource)
V 0.6.13 JavaScript could get executed in a custom column of type "comment" field
V 0.6.13 JavaScript could get executed after converting a book to another format with a title containing javascript code
V 0.6.13 JavaScript could get executed after converting a book to another format with a username containing javascript code
V 0.6.13 JavaScript could get executed in the description series, categories or publishers title
V 0.6.13 JavaScript could get executed in the shelf title
V 0.6.13 Login with the old session cookie after logout. Thanks to @ibarrionuevo
V 0.6.14 CSRF was possible. Thanks to @mik317 and Hagai Wechsler (WhiteSource) CVE-2021-25965
V 0.6.14 Migrated some routes to POST-requests (CSRF protection). Thanks to @scara31 CVE-2021-4164
V 0.6.15 Fix for "javascript:" script links in identifier. Thanks to @scara31 CVE-2021-4170
V 0.6.15 Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability on uploaded cover file names. Thanks to @ibarrionuevo
V 0.6.15 Creating public shelfs is now denied if user is missing the edit public shelf right. Thanks to @ibarrionuevo
V 0.6.15 Changed error message in case of trying to delete a shelf unauthorized. Thanks to @ibarrionuevo
V 0.6.16 JavaScript could get executed on authors page. Thanks to @alicaz CVE-2022-0352
V 0.6.16 Localhost can no longer be used to upload covers. Thanks to @scara31 CVE-2022-0339
V 0.6.16 Another case where public shelfs could be created without permission is prevented. Thanks to @nhiephon CVE-2022-0273
V 0.6.16 It's prevented to get the name of a private shelfs. Thanks to @nhiephon CVE-2022-0405
V 0.6.17 The SSRF Protection can no longer be bypassed via an HTTP redirect. Thanks to @416e6e61 CVE-2022-0767
V 0.6.17 The SSRF Protection can no longer be bypassed via 0.0.0.0 and it's ipv6 equivalent. Thanks to @r0hanSH CVE-2022-0766
V 0.6.18 Possible SQL Injection is prevented in user table Thanks to Iman Sharafaldin (Forward Security) CVE-2022-30765
V 0.6.18 The SSRF protection no longer can be bypassed by IPV6/IPV4 embedding. Thanks to @416e6e61 CVE-2022-0939
V 0.6.18 The SSRF protection no longer can be bypassed to connect to other servers in the local network. Thanks to @michaellrowley CVE-2022-0990
V 0.6.20 Credentials for emails are now stored encrypted
V 0.6.20 Login is rate limited
V 0.6.20 Passwordstrength can be forced
V 0.6.21 SMTP server credentials are no longer returned to client
V 0.6.21 Cross-site scripting (XSS) stored in href bypasses filter using data wrapper no longer possible
V 0.6.21 Cross-site scripting (XSS) is no longer possible via pathchooser
V 0.6.21 Error Handling at non existent rating, language, and user downloaded books was fixed
V 0.6.22 Upload mimetype is checked to prevent malicious file content in the books library
V 0.6.22 Cross-site scripting (XSS) stored in comments section is prevented better (switching from lxml to bleach for sanitizing strings)
V 0.6.23 Cookies are no longer stored for opds basic authentication and proxy authentication

Statement regarding Log4j (CVE-2021-44228 and related)

Calibre-web is not affected by bugs related to Log4j. Calibre-Web is a python program, therefore not using Java, and not using the Java logging feature log4j.

There aren’t any published security advisories