CVE-2020-11867

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-11867
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-30 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAudacity 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-276

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Audacityteam Audacity All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: audacity-2.4.2-4.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
The Many Perils of /tmp – Mike Salvatore's Blog MISC salvatoresecurity.com Third Party Advisory
Releases · audacity/audacity · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: audacity-3.0.2-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: audacity-3.0.2-3.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: audacity-2.4.2-4.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 281658 Fedora Security Update for audacity (FEDORA-2021-1a043ee3d2)
  • 750486 OpenSUSE Security Update for audacity (openSUSE-SU-2020:2261-1)

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