Improper access control in Calibre 6.9.0 ~ 7.14.0 allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Improper access control in Calibre 6.9.0 ~ 7.14.0 allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code     execution. (CVE-2024-6782)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-04 (calibre: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in calibre. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced     below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-a455bea9ca advisory.

    Fix fonts for < f41 releases.

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    Upgrade to latest upstream release to fix 4 CVE's and enable new hardware

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
251044	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-6782	Nessus	Misc.	critical
207572	GLSA-202409-04 : calibre: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
206238	Fedora 40 : calibre (2024-a455bea9ca)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2024-6782

critical

Tenable Plugins

critical

high

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