CVE-2026-33205

calibre has Server-Side Request Forgery in ebook viewer backend

Published Mar 27, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 4.8 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
calibre is a cross-platform e-book manager for viewing, converting, editing, and cataloging e-books. Prior to version 9.6.0, a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the background-image endpoint of calibre e-book reader's web view allows an attacker to perform blind GET requests to arbitrary URLs and exfiltrate information out from the ebook sandbox. Version 9.6.0 patches the issue.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4705-1 calibre security update
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Calibre-ebook
Calibre-ebook calibre
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:calibre-ebook:calibre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Calibre-ebook
Calibre-ebook calibre
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Kovidgoyal
Kovidgoyal calibre
Vendors & Products Kovidgoyal
Kovidgoyal calibre
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description calibre is a cross-platform e-book manager for viewing, converting, editing, and cataloging e-books. Prior to version 9.6.0, a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the background-image endpoint of calibre e-book reader's web view allows an attacker to perform blind GET requests to arbitrary URLs and exfiltrate information out from the ebook sandbox. Version 9.6.0 patches the issue.
Title calibre has Server-Side Request Forgery in ebook viewer backend
Weaknesses CWE-918
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Mar 27, 2026, 7:58 PM
Reserved
Mar 17, 2026, 11:23 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Mar 27, 2026, 3:16 PM
Modified
Oct 26, 2026, 9:10 PM