Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Jul 9, 2026
Debian calibre: calibre is an e-book manager. Prior to 9.10.0, a malicious EPUB, OPF, or PDF fil…
CVE-2026-53511
Description
calibre is an e-book manager. Prior to 9.10.0, a malicious EPUB, OPF, or PDF file can execute arbitrary Python code when its metadata is read by calibre, including through Add books or Edit books, by embedding a custom column definition with a python: template in calibre:user_metadata that is passed unsanitized to exec() in the template formatter. This issue is fixed in version 9.10.0.
Affected products
2- Range: v9.9.0, v9.8.0, v9.7.0, …
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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