CVE-2023-52076 - CVE House
Back to Database
Status published High CVE-2023-52076

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Atril's EPUB ebook parsing

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

THREAT MONITOR

Am I Vulnerable?

Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2023-52076

Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

mate-desktop

View all reports →

Affected Software

atril
Vulnerable Versions:
< 1.26.2

Timeline

Official Publish: January 25th, 2024
Last Modified: June 17th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L