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CVE-2026-46529

· Published 10/06/2026 20:17 · Modified 10/06/2026 20:58

Labels: CVE-2026-46529 2026-06-10CVE-2026-46529CWE-77[email protected]

Essential information

Published
10/06/2026 20:17
Modified
10/06/2026 20:58
Author
Creator
CVSS
8.4 HIGH (v3) 8.4 HIGH (v4.0)
CISA KEV
No
CWE
CVSS vector

CVSS metrics

Description

Atril Document Viewer is the default document reader of the MATE desktop environment for Linux. A single-click remote code execution vulnerability in versions prior to 1.26.3 and 1.28.4 allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution as the user by tricking them into clicking a link inside a malicious PDF document. The PDF can be packaged as a polyglot file that is simultaneously a valid PDF and a valid ELF shared library, making the attack a single-file, single-click, configuration-independent RCE on stock atril installations. The root cause is `shell/ev-application.c:ev_spawn`, which builds a command line from attacker-controlled PDF link-destination fields without applying `g_shell_quote`. The cmdline is then handed to `g_app_info_create_from_commandline`, which shell-parses it back into argv — splitting any embedded `--gtk-module=PATH` into a separate argv element. GTK then `dlopen()`s the path during init, running any `__attribute__((constructor))` it finds. Versions 1.26.3 and 1.28.4 contain a patch for the issue. This is the same defect class as CVE-2023-51698 (CBT `--checkpoint-action` injection in `comics-document.c`, fixed in 1.6.2) but in a different code path (`shell/ev-application.c`) that the original patch did not touch.

NVD status

Status
Deferred — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source
[email protected]
NVD
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Affected products (CPE)

ProductCPE
atril / document viewer cpe:2.3:a:atril:document_viewer:<1.26.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
atril / document viewer cpe:2.3:a:atril:document_viewer:1.28.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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