A vulnerability was found in mate-desktop atril up to 1.26.3. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component TAR Archive Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was disclosed 01/12/2024. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-51698 since 12/21/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

Applying the patch ce41df6 is able to eliminate this problem.

The entries VDB-148378, VDB-157861, VDB-178442 and VDB-180361 are pretty similar.

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• mate-desktop

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• atril

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• 1.26.0
• 1.26.1
• 1.26.2
• 1.26.3

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