CVE-2026-26064calibre is a cross-platform e-book manager for viewing, converting, editing, and cataloging e-books.
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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
- 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
calibre-ebook calibre calibre-ebook:calibre | before 9.3.0 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/e1b5f9b45a5e8fa96c136963ad9a1d35e6adac62patch
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/security/advisories/GHSA-72ch-3hqc-pgmpexploit, vendor-advisory
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