CVE-2017-9149

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.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

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

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

5.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

References

Link	Resource
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a	Patch
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9	Patch
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527	Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/858058	Mailing List
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a	Patch
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9	Patch
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527	Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/858058	Mailing List

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:metadata_anonymisation_toolkit_project:metadata_anonymisation_toolkit:0.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:metadata_anonymisation_toolkit_project:metadata_anonymisation_toolkit:0.6.1:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2017-05-22 19:29

Updated : 2025-04-20 01:37

NVD link : CVE-2017-9149

Mitre link : CVE-2017-9149

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-9149

JSON object : View

Products Affected

metadata_anonymisation_toolkit_project

metadata_anonymisation_toolkit

CWE

CWE-200

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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