CVE-2011-4125

Publication date 27 October 2021

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A untrusted search path issue was found in Calibre at devices/linux_mount_helper.c leading to the ability of unprivileged users to execute any program as root.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
calibre	11.10 oneiric	Not affected
	11.04 natty	Not affected
	10.10 maverick	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

Ubuntu, from 10.10 (maverick) and after, uses the udisk-based shell script that Martin Pitt wrote instead of the upstream calibre setuid helper. In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid), the calibre package does not include the setuid helper at all.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4125