PT-2017-18731 · None · Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit

Sajolida · Published 2017-05-22 · Updated 2017-06-08 · CVE-2017-9149

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) versions 0.6 through 0.6.1

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a file for which cleaning had been attempted, due to the silent failure of the "Clean metadata" actions when invoked from the Nautilus contextual menu.

Recommendations For Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) versions 0.6 through 0.6.1, consider disabling the invocation of "Clean metadata" actions from the Nautilus contextual menu until a patch is available.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9149

Affected Products

Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit

References · 9

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9149 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9149 · Vendor Advisory
• https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9149 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9149 · Vendor Advisory
• https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9149 · Vendor Advisory
• https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/858058 · Note