CVE-2023-51698

Publication date 12 January 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Why is this CVE high priority?

Remote code execution vulnerability with available exploit and demo video.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
atril	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.26.0-1ubuntu1.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.24.0-1ubuntu0.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.20.1-2ubuntu2+esm2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support
evince	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.6 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7274-1
Atril vulnerabilities
18 February 2025