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CVE-2023-52076

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Atril's EPUB ebook parsing

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.26.2
1 proof of concept on GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Atril Document Viewer is the default document reader of the MATE desktop environment for Linux. A path traversal and arbitrary file write vulnerability exists in versions of Atril prior to 1.26.2. This vulnerability is capable of writing arbitrary files anywhere on the filesystem to which the user opening a crafted document has access. The only limitation is that this vulnerability cannot be exploited to overwrite existing files, but that doesn't stop an attacker from achieving Remote Command Execution on the target system. Version 1.26.2 of Atril contains a patch for this vulnerability.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • mate-desktop atril

    fixed in 1.26.2

References 5

GitHub · mate-desktop/atril

lists.debian.org

GitHub · Groppoxx/CVE-2023-52076-PoC