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
Published May 22, 2017
7.5
HIGHCVSS 3.0
EPSS 1.80%
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
No data.
- 0.6
- 0.6.1
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2021–2026- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
Percentile over time
- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.80% (0.01796) | 77.64th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 1.80% (0.01796) | 77.45th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jul 20, 2024 | 0.12% (0.00117) | 46.19th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 15, 2024 | 0.12% (0.00120) | 45.24th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.11% (0.00110) | 42.88th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 3, 2023 | 0.21% (0.00212) | 58.47th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.15% (0.00154) | 49.89th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.02% (0.01018) | 40.69th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.02% (0.01018) | 19.50th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 1.04% (0.01040) | 28.32th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Apr 14, 2021 | 1.04% (0.01040) | 0.00th | v1 |
References (4)
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a x_refsource_MISCPatch
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9 x_refsource_MISCPatch
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527 x_refsource_MISCIssue Tracking
- https://bugs.debian.org/858058 x_refsource_MISCMailing List
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a | x_refsource_MISCPatch | |
| https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9 | x_refsource_MISCPatch | |
| https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527 | x_refsource_MISCIssue Tracking | |
| https://bugs.debian.org/858058 | x_refsource_MISCMailing List |
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