CVE-2026-25636

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.13.0+repack-2+deb12u6`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.12.0+dfsg-1+deb11u4`
debian	forky	fixed	`9.2.0+ds+~0.10.5-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`9.2.0+ds+~0.10.5-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`8.5.0+ds-1+deb13u2`
sles		affected

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.