CVE 8.2 HIGH

calibre has a Path Traversal Leading to Arbitrary File Corruption and Code Execution_CVE-2026-25636

8.2 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-25636
Source GitHub_M
Published Feb 6, 2026 at 20:07

Affected Product

Vendor kovidgoyal
Product calibre
Version < 9.2.0
Affected Versions kovidgoyal calibre < 9.2.0

CWE Classification

References

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