Information disclosure in Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Project
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.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.018 (77.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Project — versions 0.6, 0.6.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- 0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9 (Patch)
- 0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527 (Issue Tracking)
- 0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a (Patch)
- bugs.debian.org/858058 (Mailing List)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-9149?
- CVE-2017-9149 is a high-severity vulnerability in Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Project, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-05-22.
- How severe is CVE-2017-9149?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.