UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9149

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9149

    Published: 22 May 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-9149

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9149, https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9149

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mat

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.5.4-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High