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low 3.3

CVE-2020-11867 json

Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$USER by default.

published 2020-11-30 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-4207

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • audacity Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.4.2~dfsg0-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11867

  • audacity Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.1.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • audacity Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • audacity Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 2.3.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11867

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • audacity Package Hub 15 SP2, Package Hub 15 SP1, openSUSE Leap 15.2 +1 more 2.2.2-bp152.4.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:2261-1

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-2020-11867 updated cvss 5.0

audacity: insecure use of temporary directory leads to information disclosure

  • 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

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

Sources

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