CVE-2017-9149

7.5 highEPSS 1.8%

High (7.5) in metadata anonymisation toolkit project metadata anonymisation toolkit. EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

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

EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-200
Published: 2017-05-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

metadata_anonymisation_toolkit_project:metadata_anonymisation_toolkit

References

https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527
https://bugs.debian.org/858058
https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a

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