CVE-2026-30853 PUBLISHED

calibre has a Path Traversal Leading to Arbitrary File Write

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.03.2026 Published: 13.03.2026 Updated: 13.03.2026

calibre is a cross-platform e-book manager for viewing, converting, editing, and cataloging e-books. Prior to 9.5.0, a path traversal vulnerability in the RocketBook (.rb) input plugin (src/calibre/ebooks/rb/reader.py) allows an attacker to write arbitrary files to any path writable by the calibre process when a user opens or converts a crafted .rb file. This is the same bug class fixed in CVE-2026-26065 for the PDB readers, but the fix was never applied to the RB reader. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.5.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 5

Product Status

Vendor kovidgoyal
Product calibre
Versions
  • Version < 9.5.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE