CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-104982
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-10-06
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
A flaw has been found in Linux Mint Xreader up to 4.6.5. This issue affects the function setup_document_content_list/g_strdup_printf of the file backend/epub/epub-document.c of the component EPUB File Handler. This manipulation causes path traversal. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used. Upgrading to version 4.6.6 is capable of addressing this issue. Patch name: a5aecea074e8564b7a22f1ce054b31ec862974b7. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component. One of the project maintainers explains, that "EPUB support was removed from Xreader and reimplemented in Xepub".
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://gist.github.com/rodtvs/63a34e7b20a9f97a1a7167a8a1db49c2 gist.github.com
- https://github.com/linuxmint/xreader/commit/a5aecea074e8564b7a22f1ce054b31ec862974b7 github.com
- https://github.com/linuxmint/xreader/issues/713 github.com
- https://github.com/linuxmint/xreader/releases/tag/4.6.6 github.com
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-104982 vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/submit/964347 vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/413198 vuldb.com
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/413198/cti vuldb.com