CVE-2017-9149 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2017-9149

Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) 0.6 and 0.6.1 silently fails to...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

metadata anonymisation toolkit project

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Affected Software

metadata anonymisation toolkit
Vulnerable Versions:
0.6, 0.6.1

Timeline

Official Publish: May 22nd, 2017
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.