CVE-2026-25636

high

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.

References

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/security/advisories/GHSA-8r26-m7j5-hm29

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/9484ea82c6ab226c18e6ca5aa000fa16de598726

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-06

Updated: 2026-02-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00012