CVE-2020-11867

published 2020-11-30

CVE-2020-11867: Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$USER by default. After Audacity creates the temporary directory, it sets its permissions to…

Priority P4 11 low 3.3 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C L I N A N

Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$USER by default. After Audacity creates the temporary directory, it sets its permissions to 755. Any user on the system can read and play the temporary audio .au files located there.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
audacityteam	audacity	<= 2.3.3	—
audacityteam	audacity	>= 0 < 2.4.2~dfsg0-4	2.4.2~dfsg0-4
audacityteam	audacity	>= 0 < 2.4.2~dfsg0-4	2.4.2~dfsg0-4
audacityteam	audacity	>= 0 < 2.4.2~dfsg0-4	2.4.2~dfsg0-4
audacityteam	audacity	>= 0 < 2.4.2~dfsg0-4	2.4.2~dfsg0-4
debian	audacity	< audacity 2.4.2~dfsg0-4 (bookworm)	audacity 2.4.2~dfsg0-4 (bookworm)
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 3.3 LOW CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

osv 3.3 LOW

vendor_debian 3.3 LOW

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