CVE-2020-11867

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11867
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-11867.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-11867
Downstream
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Published
2020-11-30T22:15:10.713Z
Modified
2025-11-20T11:08:39.188736Z
Severity
  • 3.3 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/audacity/audacity

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/audacity/audacity
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Affected versions

Audacity-1.*

Audacity-1.3.12
Audacity-1.3.13
Audacity-1.3.14
Audacity-1.3.15

Audacity-2.*

Audacity-2.0.0
Audacity-2.0.1
Audacity-2.0.2
Audacity-2.0.3
Audacity-2.0.4
Audacity-2.0.5
Audacity-2.0.6
Audacity-2.1.0
Audacity-2.1.1
Audacity-2.1.2
Audacity-2.1.3
Audacity-2.2.0
Audacity-2.2.1
Audacity-2.2.2
Audacity-2.3.0
Audacity-2.3.1
Audacity-2.3.2
Audacity-2.3.3

DarkAudacity-2.*

DarkAudacity-2.1.3x