CVE-2017-9149

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-9149
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-05-22 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-20 01:37:25 UTC
DescriptionMetadata 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.0 7.5 HIGH from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.0[email protected]Primary7.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
2.0[email protected]Primary5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Project Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit 0.6 All All All
Application Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Project Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit 0.6.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Make the Nautilus extension work again. (94ca62a4) · Commits · mat / mat · GitLab af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 0xacab.org Patch
Nautilus extension silently broken in 0.6 and 0.6.1 (#11527) · Issues · mat / mat · GitLab af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 0xacab.org Issue Tracking
#858058 - mat: CVE-2017-9149: "Clean metadata" contextual menu silently fails - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Mailing List
Revert "Improves a bit portability" (8f6303a1) · Commits · mat / mat · GitLab af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 0xacab.org Patch
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