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Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 30, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.045%
(17th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-11867

GHSA ID

GHSA-wrfq-hrw9-9rm3

Source code

No known source code

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