diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/container.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/container.py
index f17740424ff7..4a69c52bacd2 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/container.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/container.py
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ def __init__(self, pathtoepub, log, clone_data=None, tdir=None):
                         ' more forgiving ZIP parser')
                 from calibre.utils.localunzip import extractall
                 stream.seek(0)
-                extractall(stream)
+                extractall(stream, path=tdir)
         try:
             os.remove(join(tdir, 'mimetype'))
         except EnvironmentError: