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CVE-2023-52076

HighPublished

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Atril's EPUB ebook parsing

Published: Jan 25, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2025
Assigning CNA: GitHub_M
Evidence observed: Aug 25, 2026

Primary CVSS

8.5/ 10High

nvd · CVSS 3.1

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

EPSS probability estimate

1.1%

Low · next 30 days

Percentile: 63.3%
Model date: Sep 21, 2026

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Summary

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.

Sources

CVE-2023-52076-PoCPoC
PoC exploit for CVE-2023-52076 - zip-slip path traversal in Atril/Xreader (MATE/Cinnamon) enabling arbitrary file write and RCE via crafted EPUB. Authorized security testing only.
slippy-book-exploitExploit
CVE-2023-44451, CVE-2023-52076: RCE Vulnerability affected popular Linux Distros including Mint, Kali, Parrot, Manjaro etc. EPUB File Parsing Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution

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