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CVE-2026-25636

CVE-2026-25636 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.199999809265137 HIGH

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.

EPSS 0.21% · 11.0th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
8.199999809265137
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.21%
11.0th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
calibre-ebookcalibre0, 0
kovidgoyalcalibre< 9.2.0, < 9.2.0

Timeline

  • Feb 6, 2026 CVE Published
  • Feb 6, 2026 PoC Published
  • Feb 6, 2026 PoC Published
  • Feb 6, 2026 PoC Published
  • Feb 6, 2026 PoC Published
  • Feb 7, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Feb 9, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Feb 10, 2026 PoC Published
  • Feb 11, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Feb 11, 2026 PoC Published
  • Feb 14, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Feb 16, 2026 EPSS Score
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