CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2011-4126 — Calibre-Ebook Calibre security vulnerability
High
CVSS 9.3
Race condition issues were found in Calibre at devices/linux_mount_helper.c allowing unprivileged users the ability to mount any device to anywhere.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 9.3 (2.0)
- Published
- 2021-10-27
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Affected products
- calibre-ebook / calibre
Matched remediation archetype
Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization
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Check exposure
- Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
- Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
- Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.
Remediate safely
- Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
- Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
- Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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