CVE-2025-52880 (GCVE-0-2025-52880)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-24 19:56 – Updated: 2025-06-24 20:09
VLAI
Title
Komga Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via Crafted EPUB File
Summary
Komga is a media server for comics, mangas, BDs, magazines and eBooks. A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in versions 1.8.0 through 1.21.3 when serving EPUB resources, either directly from the API, or when reading using the epub reader. The vulnerability lets an attacker perform actions on the victim's behalf. When targeting an admin user, this can be combined with controlling a server-side command to achieve arbitrary code execution. For this vulnerability to be exploited, a malicious EPUB file has to be present in a Komga library, and subsequently accessed in the Epub reader by an admin user. Version 1.22.0 contains a patch for the issue.
Severity
4.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-24 20:09 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-799 - Improper Control of Interaction Frequency
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7799 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
gotson komga Affected: >= 1.8.0, < 1.22.0
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