Medium
mangadex-downloader vulnerable to unauthorized file reading
Type: advisorySources: OSV
mangadex-downloader is a command-line tool to download manga from MangaDex. When using `file:` command and `` 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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-36082
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 8 Nov 2026, 02:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
mangadex-downloader vulnerable to unauthorized file reading
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 7 Sept 2022, 21:35 UTC
mangadex-downloader is a command-line tool to download manga from MangaDex. When using `file:` command and `` 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.
osv:CVE-2022-36082
Complete source record
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"summary": "mangadex-downloader is a command-line tool to download manga from MangaDex. When using `file:` command and `` 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.",
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