CVE-2022-36082 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-36082: mangadex-downloader vulnerable to unauthorized file reading

Vendor Mansuf
Product mangadex-downloader
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published September 7, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025
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CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

mangadex-downloader is a command-line tool to download manga from MangaDex. When using `file:<location>` command and `<location>` is a web URL location (http, https), mangadex-downloader between versions 1.3.0 and 1.7.2 will try to open and read a file in local disk for each line of website contents. Version 1.7.2 contains a patch for this issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 7, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated