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HIGHCVE-2026-25636Published Modified CNA GitHub_M

CVE-2026-25636: calibre has a Path Traversal Leading to Arbitrary File Corruption and Code Execution

calibre is an e-book manager. In 9.1.0 and earlier, a path traversal vulnerability in Calibre's EPUB conversion allows a malicious EPUB file to corrupt arbitrary existing files writable by the Calibre process. During conversion, Calibre resolves CipherReference URI from META-INF/encryption.xml to an absolute filesystem path and opens it in read-write mode, even when it points outside the conversion extraction directory. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0.

Metrics

CVSS v3.1
8.2
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
Affected Products
1
Affected packages
  • kovidgoyal / calibre
    < 9.2.0
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H