Vulnerability CVE-2020-11867
Published: 2020-11-30

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.

Type:

CWE-276

 (Incorrect Default Permissions)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Audacityteam -> Audacity 

 References:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases
https://salvatoresecurity.com/the-many-perils-of-tmp/
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