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CVE-2023-51698
Atril's CBT comic book parsing vulnerable to Remote Code Execution
Critical9.6EPSS 2.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. Atril is vulnerable to a critical Command Injection Vulnerability. This vulnerability gives the attacker immediate access to the target system when the target user opens a crafted document or clicks on a crafted link/URL using a maliciously crafted CBT document which is a TAR archive. A patch is available at commit ce41df6.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.6.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected <= 1.26.3
References (4)
- https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/security/advisories/GHSA-34rr-j8v9-v4p2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/commit/ce41df6467521ff9fd4f16514ae7d6ebb62eb1ed (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OZKXNZ3HGH6KH65OEKVCEAOZJWNZ32FQ/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OT3UIQOSZ6UNH5QTFOOY2DJ4MITM2C2C/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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