Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all mate-desktop-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Common weakness patterns include vendor risk path handling and vendor risk command injection, with potential vendor impact file overwrite across vendor surface production workloads use cases.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-52138 | Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. Engrampa is found to be vulnerable to a Path Traversal vulnerability that can be leveraged to achieve full Remote Command Execution (RCE) on the target. While handling CPIO archives, the Engrampa Archive manager follows symlink, cpio by default will follow stored symlinks while extracting and the Archiver will not check the symlink location, which leads to arbitrary file writes to unintended locations. When the victim extracts the archive, | [email protected] | 8.2 | 1.65% | 2024-02-05 | 2026-06-17 |
| CVE-2023-52076 | Atril Document Viewer is the default document reader of the MATE desktop environment for Linux. A path traversal and arbitrary file write vulnerability exists in versions of Atril prior to 1.26.2. This vulnerability is capable of writing arbitrary files anywhere on the filesystem to which the user opening a crafted document has access. The only limitation is that this vulnerability cannot be exploited to overwrite existing files, but that doesn't stop an attacker from achieving Remote Command Ex | [email protected] | 8.5 | 1.02% | 2024-01-25 | 2026-06-17 |
| CVE-2023-51698 | 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. | [email protected] | 9.6 | 2.36% | 2024-01-12 | 2026-06-17 |
| CVE-2018-20681 | mate-screensaver before 1.20.2 in MATE Desktop Environment allows physically proximate attackers to view screen content and possibly control applications. By unplugging and re-plugging or power-cycling external output devices (such as additionally attached graphical outputs via HDMI, VGA, DVI, etc.) the content of a screensaver-locked session can be revealed. In some scenarios, the attacker can execute applications, such as by clicking with a mouse. | [email protected] | 6.1 | 0.58% | 2019-01-09 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2012-5560 | The default configuration in mate-settings-daemon 1.5.3 allows local users to change the timezone for the system via a crafted D-Bus call. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.37% | 2014-05-30 | 2026-06-16 |