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.
History

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Calibre-ebook
Calibre-ebook calibre
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:calibre-ebook:calibre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Calibre-ebook
Calibre-ebook calibre

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References

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Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Important


Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Kovidgoyal
Kovidgoyal calibre
Vendors & Products Kovidgoyal
Kovidgoyal calibre

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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
References
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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-11T14:51:19.827Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-25636

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-11T14:51:19.827Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2026-02-17T21:23:11.340

Link: CVE-2026-25636

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-02-06T20:07:40Z

Links: CVE-2026-25636 - Bugzilla