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CVE-2026-25636

HIGH CVSS: 8.2 Published: 2026-02-06 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Calibre-Ebook Calibre

Weakness Type

CWE-22, CWE-73, CWE-94, CWE-22

References