CVE-2023-52076

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    CVE-2023-52076

    Published: 25 Jan 2024Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Atril's EPUB ebook parsing

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/releases/tag/v1.26.2, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00003.html, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52076.json, https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/security/advisories/GHSA-6mf6-mxpc-jc37, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52076, https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/commit/e70b21c815418a1e6ebedf6d8d31b8477c03ba50

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0014a629ef701a4786e73e16cf0736410e81976b

    Affected versions

    v1.26.1
    v1.26.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
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    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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