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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0326

NIXPKGS-2026-0326
published on 26 Feb 2026
updated 1 week, 2 days ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
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calibre: Path Traversal Vulnerability Enables Arbitrary File Write and Remote Code Execution

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 products

calibre
  • ==< 9.3.0

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Upstream advisory: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/security/advisories/GHSA-72ch-3hqc-pgmp
Upstream patch: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/e1b5f9b45a5e8fa96c136963ad9a1d35e6adac62