PT-2017-18731
CVE-2017-9149
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Published
2017-05-22
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Updated
2017-06-08
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV: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.
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