CVE-2023-51698: Mate-Desktop Atril

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mate-Desktop Atril: up to and including 1.26.3

Published 2024-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.