CVE-2026-25636
highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.002 · 14 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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references (9)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-25636cnnvd
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/9484ea82c6ab226c18e6ca5aa000fa16de598726cnnvd
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/security/advisories/GHSA-8r26-m7j5-hm29cnnvd
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/9484ea82c6ab226c18e6ca5aa000fa16de598726enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/security/advisories/GHSA-8r26-m7j5-hm29enisa_euvd
- https://0x5t.raptx.org/posts/calibre-epub-rceExploitThird Party Advisorynvd
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/9484ea82c6ab226c18e6ca5aa000fa16de598726Patchnvd
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