Calibre Web

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Keywords: media, ebooks
Train: Community
Home Page: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
Added: 2024-11-13
Last Updated: 2025-05-22
Calibre Web is a web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database
Run as Context- Calibre Web runs as root user.
Group: 0 / root
User: 0 / root

Security Capabilities
- Calibre Web is able to chown files.
- Calibre Web is able to bypass permission checks.
- Calibre Web is able bypass permission checks for it's sub-processes.
- Calibre Web is able to set group ID for it's sub-processes.
- Calibre Web is able to set user ID for it's sub-processes.
App Metadata (Raw File)
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