CVE-2017-9149 Information disclosure in n/a
MAT fails to clean metadata when invoked via Nautilus, allowing attackers to read sensitive information from files intended to be sanitized.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-9149?
CVE-2017-9149 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 May 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9149?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Project Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit.
How do I fix CVE-2017-9149?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-9149 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-9149 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9149 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xg53-f74r-6v3r, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9149.