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CVE-2020-11867

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-11-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

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 products

• Audacityteam Audacity: through 2.3.3
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34

References

• https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MG5PSF4CJ7UPMJHWX553EG3P2XN3PAYI/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WKK3S2QBXBHOFOQMXMGY5QAKVUWUX2YY/
• https://salvatoresecurity.com/the-many-perils-of-tmp/
• https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MG5PSF4CJ7UPMJHWX553EG3P2XN3PAYI/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WKK3S2QBXBHOFOQMXMGY5QAKVUWUX2YY/
• https://salvatoresecurity.com/the-many-perils-of-tmp/

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