Security advisory

{
  "id": "b1539fe37222b3551a4cf58ae5bc79f9f374879f593a39f8d8f0f1be9ebc5990",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-11867",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-11867",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-11867",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "low",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-11867",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-11867"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/audacity/audacity",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "008d8d8c8cb6f6fac9c95f72513f6b0bc98af1dc"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:audacityteam:audacity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.3.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "Audacity-2.3.3",
            "Audacity-2.3.2",
            "Audacity-2.3.1",
            "Audacity-2.3.0",
            "Audacity-2.2.2",
            "Audacity-2.2.1",
            "Audacity-2.2.0",
            "Audacity-2.1.3",
            "Audacity-2.1.2",
            "Audacity-2.1.0",
            "Audacity-2.0.6",
            "Audacity-2.0.5",
            "Audacity-2.0.4",
            "Audacity-2.0.3",
            "Audacity-2.0.2",
            "Audacity-2.0.1",
            "Audacity-2.0.0",
            "Audacity-1.3.15",
            "Audacity-1.3.14",
            "Audacity-1.3.13",
            "Audacity-1.3.12"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-11867.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:04.352407834Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "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://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases",
        "https://salvatoresecurity.com/the-many-perils-of-tmp/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "33"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "33"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "34"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "34"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-11867",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382463,
  "published_at": "2020-11-30T22:15:10.713+00:00"
}