CVE-2026-26064
High · 8.8CVSS
8.8
EPSS
0.9%
Published
Feb 20, 2026
CISA due date
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The record
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Introduced | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | calibre | 0 | 9.7.0-1.1 |
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