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atril — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52076

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.

Products
atril
Affected versions
1.26.0-2, 1.26.0-2+deb12u1, 1.26.0-2+deb12u2
Fixed versions
1.26.0-2+deb12u3, 1.26.2-1
CVEs
CVE-2023-52076
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:00 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52076

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Jan 2024, 16:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52076

atril

Fixed versions: 1.26.0-2+deb12u3

atril

Fixed versions: 1.26.2-1

atril

Fixed versions: 1.26.2-1

Complete source record
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