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Medium 5.0Published Mar 13, 2026

CVE-2026-30853calibre has a Path Traversal Leading to Arbitrary File Write

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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.

CVSS
5.0 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
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
GitHub_M
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Mar 13, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
kovidgoyal calibre
kovidgoyal:calibre (from the name)
before 9.5.0
CNA record
calibre-ebook calibre
calibre-ebook:calibre
before 9.5.0
NVD

References

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CVE-2026-30853: calibre has a Path Traversal Leading to Arbitrary File Write | InfoSec Signals