CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-9149

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) versions 0.6 and 0.6.1 fails to properly perform 'Clean metadata' actions invoked from the Nautilus contextual menu, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information from files that were intended to be cleaned.

Risk Assessment

Attackers may gain access to sensitive data, potentially leading to privacy breaches and information security risks within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of MAT to ensure proper functionality of the metadata cleaning feature and minimize the risk of information leakage.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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 data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS