CVE-2026-25636 (GCVE-0-2026-25636)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-06 20:07 – Updated: 2026-02-11 14:51
VLAI?
Title
calibre has a Path Traversal Leading to Arbitrary File Corruption and Code Execution
Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.2 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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| kovidgoyal | calibre |
Affected:
< 9.2.0
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