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
EPSS: 0.018 (76.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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.
Affected products
- Metadata_anonymisation_toolkit_project Metadata_anonymisation_toolkit — versions 0.6, 0.6.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, x_refsource_MISC)
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.