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

- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 9.5.0
- Published: 2026-03-13 · Updated: 2026-03-13

## Affected

- kovidgoyal calibre: fixed in 9.5.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kovidgoyal calibre, upgrade to a fixed version (9.5.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/security/advisories/GHSA-7mp7-rfrg-542x

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