Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting mate-desktop/atril package, versions [,1.26.3)[1.27.0,1.28.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.53% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MATEDESKTOPATRIL-17430744
  • published23 Jun 2026
  • disclosed10 Jun 2026
  • creditN1et

Introduced: 10 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-46529  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mate-desktop/atril to version 1.26.3, 1.28.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection via the ev_spawn function. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into clicking a crafted link within a malicious PDF document, which can result in the loading of an attacker-controlled shared library through the --gtk-module argument.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1