CVE-2023-51698

Atril's CBT comic book parsing vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. Atril is vulnerable to a critical Command Injection Vulnerability. This vulnerability gives the attacker immediate access to the target system when the target user opens a crafted document or clicks on a crafted link/URL using a maliciously crafted CBT document which is a TAR archive. A patch is available at commit ce41df6.

Affected

mate-desktop · atril

CVSS v3.1 NVD

8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 GITHUB

9.6 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

EPSS

2.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 84th percentile

Published

2024-01-12

Updated

2025-06-17

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• mate-desktop/atril/security/advisories/GHSA-34rr-j8v9-v4p2
• febinrev/atril_cbt-inject-exploit6★ · 2024-01-17

Security advisories

• mate-desktop/atril/commit/ce41df6467521ff9fd4f16514ae7d6ebb62eb1ed

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2019-6447
• CVE-2021-45010
• CVE-2021-46398
• CVE-2022-0847
• CVE-2023-44451
• CVE-2023-44452