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CVE-2022-2525

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2525 is a critical vulnerability affecting janeczku/calibre-web versions prior to 0.6.20, stemming from an improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely achieve full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While the FAUCET Risk Score is 76/100, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.6.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:janeczku:calibre-web:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.3HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0076 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: calibrewebFixed in: 0.6.20

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-jg8w-wgx2-g7q4medium

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in calibreweb

Apr 15, 2023

References

github.com / janeczku/calibre-web/commit/49e4f540c9b204c7e39b3c27ceadecd83ed60e7e
Patch
huntr.dev / bounties/9ff87820-c14c-4454-9764-406496254ef0
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory