Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2025-6998. PoCs published by mind2hex.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2025-6998, a ReDoS vulnerability in CalibreWeb v0.6.24. The exploit sends a crafted payload to the login endpoint, triggering excessive regex processing time.
Description
ReDoS in strip_whitespaces() function in cps/string_helper.py in Calibre Web and Autocaliweb allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service via specially crafted username parameter that triggers catastrophic backtracking during login. This issue affects Calibre Web: 0.6.24 (Nicolette); Autocaliweb: from 0.7.0 before 0.7.1.
Exploits (1)
This repository contains a functional exploit for CVE-2025-6998, a ReDoS vulnerability in CalibreWeb v0.6.24. The exploit sends a crafted payload to the login endpoint, triggering excessive regex processing time.
References (3)
Scores
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X