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
0.88% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CALIBRE-15323286
  • published20 Feb 2026
  • disclosed20 Feb 2026

Introduced: 20 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-26064  (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 contain a Path Traversal vulnerability that allows arbitrary file writes anywhere the user has write permissions. On Windows, this leads to Remote Code Execution by writing a payload to the Startup folder, which executes on next login. Function extract_pictures only checks startswith('Pictures'), and does not sanitize '..' sequences. calibre's own ZipFile.extractall() in utils/zipfile.py does sanitize '..' via _get_targetpath(), but extract_pictures() bypasses this by using manual zf.read() + open(). This issue has been fixed in version 9.3.0.

CVSS Base Scores

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