CVE-2023-52076

HIGH EXPLOITED

Atril Document Viewer <1.26.2 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (1)

vulncheck_xdb WORKING POC
client-side
https://github.com/febinrev/slippy-book-exploit

Scores

CVSS v3 8.5
EPSS 0.1135
EPSS Percentile 93.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2025-12-08
CWE
CWE-22 CWE-25 CWE-27 CWE-24
Status published
Products (1)
mate-desktop/atril < 1.26.2
Published Jan 25, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026