CVE-2017-9149

HIGH

Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) <0.7 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

Description

Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) 0.6 and 0.6.1 silently fails to perform "Clean metadata" actions upon invocation from the Nautilus contextual menu, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a file for which cleaning had been attempted.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Patch x_refsource_misc

https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9

Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc

https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527

Patch x_refsource_misc

https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a

Mailing List x_refsource_misc

https://bugs.debian.org/858058

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0180

EPSS Percentile 75.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (2)

metadata_anonymisation_toolkit_project/metadata_anonymisation_toolkit 0.6

metadata_anonymisation_toolkit_project/metadata_anonymisation_toolkit 0.6.1

Published May 22, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026