The CVSS 9.4 rating for CVE-2026-45272 obscures a more dangerous reality: once you reach the admin panel, achieving code execution is not an injection challenge—it's a direct code generation failure. The application writes SOCIAL_AUTH key names directly into a Python source file (auto.py) without escaping, meaning you close the settings dictionary with a malformed key like `key\
Code InjectionWeakness · CWE-94
CVE-2026-45272
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable
Zero-click
Patch available
5 days old
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedMyBooks is an enhanced and easy-to-use personal ebook management web server also known as Talebook. In 3.41.2 and earlier, the AdminSettings.post handler in webserver/handlers/admin.py accepts SOCIAL_AUTH key names without validating quotes or newline characters, and SettingsLoader.dumpfile in webserver/loader.py concatenates those names into the generated Python source file auto.py without escaping them. An administrator can submit a crafted SOCIAL_AUTH key name that closes the settings dictionary and injects arbitrary Python statements. The application later executes those statements because SettingsLoader.loadfile imports auto.py as a module, and setting autoreload to true invokes restart_async so a process supervisor restarts the service and triggers the import. Successful exploitation executes commands with the privileges of the application service account and can disclose data, modify files, establish persistence, or disrupt the service. Related authorization and registration vulnerabilities can reduce the effective privilege requirement in a chained attack, but the standalone vulnerability requires administrator access. This issue is fixed in version 3.42.0.
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How this class of weakness works · CWE-94
The application evaluates attacker-influenced input as code, handing them a way to run logic inside the process. Depending on the runtime this can escalate directly to remote code execution. Remediation means removing dynamic evaluation of untrusted input and replacing it with safe, data-driven alternatives.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- High
- Authentication
- X
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- X
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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version 3.42.0
- Back up the current Talebook installation and all data files before proceeding with the upgrade
- Upgrade Talebook to version 3.42.0 or later using your deployment method (Docker, pip, or source installation)
- After upgrading, verify the application starts successfully and is running version 3.42.0 or later
- Confirm that the web interface is accessible and functioning normally
- Review any custom SOCIAL_AUTH configurations to ensure no malicious key names were previously injected
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The CVSS 9.4 rating for CVE-2026-45272 obscures a more dangerous reality: once you reach the admin panel, achieving code execution is not an injection challenge—it's a direct code generation failure. The application writes SOCIAL_AUTH key names directly into a Python source file (auto.py) without escaping, meaning you close the settings dictionary with a malformed key like `key\
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