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…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.80%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.80% probability · 77th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- Affected
- metadata anonymisation toolkit project/metadata anonymisation toolkit
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59aPatch
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9Patch
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527Issue Tracking
- https://bugs.debian.org/858058Mailing List
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59aPatch
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9Patch
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527Issue Tracking
- https://bugs.debian.org/858058Mailing List
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.