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OESA-2024-1612 (CVE-2023-51698)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-05-17 11:07 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:07 – Source website

Summary

atril security update

Details

Mate-document-viewer is simple document viewer. It can display and print Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DVI, DJVU, epub and XPS files. When supported by the document format, mate-document-viewer allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, table-of-contents bookmarks and editing of forms.

Security Fix(es):

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. (CVE-2023-51698)

Severity

9.6 (Critical)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-51698	ADVISORY

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  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
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  ]
}

CVE-2023-51698 (GCVE-0-2023-51698)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-12 20:27 – Updated: 2025-06-17 21:09

Title

Atril's CBT comic book parsing vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

Summary

Severity

9.6 (Critical)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-01-23 21:42 UTC

CWE

CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/security/ad…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril/commit/ce41…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
mate-desktop	atril	Affected: <= 1.26.3

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