CVE-2020-11867

low

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

2.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-11867

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.4.2~dfsg0-4`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.4.2~dfsg0-4`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.4.2~dfsg0-4`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.4.2~dfsg0-4`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.4.2~dfsg0-4`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-11867

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.