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CVE-2017-9149

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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.

Affected products

• Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Project Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit: 0.6, 0.6.1

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

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