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medium 5.0

CVE-2007-6061 json

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allow…

published 2007-11-20 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-6031

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (recording deadlock) by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack.

Patch / fix

  • audacity Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.4-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6061

  • audacity openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.0.4-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10639-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-6061 updated

Audacity insecure temporary file handling

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.gentoo.org http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199751 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

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