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: 2025-09-02
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 change file ownership arbitrarily
- Calibre Web is able to bypass file permission checks
- Calibre Web is able to bypass permission checks for file operations
- Calibre Web is able to change group ID of processes
- Calibre Web is able to change user ID of processes
App Metadata (Raw File)
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