CVE-2020-12627

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-12627 · Published 04/05/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-12627 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting calibre-web (janeczku).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 71.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
calibre-web janeczku	`= 0.6.6`	No fix yet

Calibre-Web 0.6.6 allows authentication bypass because of the 'A0Zr98j/3yX R~XHH!jmN]LWX/,?RT' hardcoded secret key.

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