CVE-2023-52076

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Atril's EPUB ebook parsing

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.

Affected

mate-desktop · atril

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

CVSS v3.1 GITHUB

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

EPSS

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 65th percentile

Published

2024-01-25

Updated

2025-06-17

Proof-of-concept exploits (3)

• mate-desktop/atril/security/advisories/GHSA-6mf6-mxpc-jc37
• febinrev/slippy-book-exploit11★ · 2024-01-17
• Groppoxx/CVE-2023-52076-PoC3★ · 2026-07-27

Security advisories

• mate-desktop/atril/commit/e70b21c815418a1e6ebedf6d8d31b8477c03ba50

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

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