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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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.
Title calibre has a Path Traversal Leading to Arbitrary File Corruption and Code Execution
Weaknesses CWE-22
CWE-73
CWE-94
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-02-06T20:07:40.529Z

Reserved: 2026-02-04T05:15:41.790Z

Link: CVE-2026-25636

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-02-06T21:16:18.833

Modified: 2026-02-06T21:57:22.450

Link: CVE-2026-25636

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