High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 22, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-9149
CVE-2017-9149
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.
Affected products
2cpe:2.3:a:metadata_anonymisation_toolkit_project:metadata_anonymisation_toolkit:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
4- 0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59anvdPatch
- 0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9nvdPatch
- 0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527nvdIssue Tracking
- bugs.debian.org/858058nvdMailing List
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