CVE-2024-7008 | Calibre Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Exp

Unsanitized user-input in Calibre <= 7.15.0 allow attackers to perform reflected cross-site scripting.

Published: 2024-08-06 Last update: 2024-08-19 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-7008 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 13.40%, 94th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-7008

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-7008

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-10 12.71% 13.40% +0.69%
2 2026-03-23 16.33% 12.71% -3.62%
3 2026-02-28 — 16.33% —

Full EPSS history (22 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-7008

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.5 [email protected]
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-7008

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-7008

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-7008 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (calibre), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-7008
gentoo high CVE-2024-7008: 1 GLSA(s) (202409-04), 1 atom(s) (app-text/calibre); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2024-7008
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-7008 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (calibre), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 4, not-affected 3, ignored 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-7008

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-7008

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
calibre-ebook calibre <= 7.15.0 cpe:2.3:a:calibre-ebook:calibre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-7008

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