CVE-2023-52076

CVE-2023-52076 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV). EIP tracks 1 public exploit.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains functional exploit scripts for CVE-2023-52076, a directory traversal vulnerability in Atril/Xreader document viewers. The exploit leverages EPUB file parsing to achieve arbitrary file write and RCE via crafted .desktop entries or SSH authorized_keys.

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.