CVE-2022-36082 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-36082

mangadex-downloader vulnerable to unauthorized file reading

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mangadex-downloader
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 1.3.0, < 1.7.2

Timeline

Official Publish: September 7th, 2022
Last Modified: April 23rd, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)