Directory Traversal Affecting calibre package, versions <9.3.0+ds+~0.10.5-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CALIBRE-15323238
  • published20 Feb 2026
  • disclosed20 Feb 2026

Introduced: 20 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-26065  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable calibre to version 9.3.0+ds+~0.10.5-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream calibre package and not the calibre package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

calibre is a cross-platform e-book manager for viewing, converting, editing, and cataloging e-books. Versions 9.2.1 and below are vulnerable to Path Traversal through PDB readers (both 132-byte and 202-byte header variants) that allow arbitrary file writes with arbitrary extension and arbitrary content anywhere the user has write permissions. Files are written in 'wb' mode, silently overwriting existing files. This can lead to potential code execution and Denial of Service through file corruption. This issue has been fixed in version 9.3.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1