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CVE-2017-9149
Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) 0.6 and 0.6.1 silently fails to perform "Clean metadata" actions upon invocation from the Nautilus…
High7.5EPSS 1.8%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (4)
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/858058 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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