Riskcovery

CVE-2020-11931

Ubuntu modifications to pulseaudio to provide snap security enforcement could be unloaded

State
Published
Severity
3.3 Low
Published
May 15, 2020
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Apr 20, 2020

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Description

An Ubuntu-specific modification to Pulseaudio to provide security mediation for Snap-packaged applications was found to have a bypass of intended access restriction for snaps which plugs any of pulseaudio, audio-playback or audio-record via unloading the pulseaudio snap policy module. This issue affects: pulseaudio 1:8.0 versions prior to 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.12; 1:11.1 versions prior to 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.7; 1:13.0 versions prior to 1:13.0-1ubuntu1.2; 1:13.99.1 versions prior to 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.2;

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.3 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Ncanonical

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
pulseaudioCanonical
  • 1:8.0 to before 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.12Affected
  • 1:11.1 to before 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.7Affected
  • 1:13.0 to before 1:13.0-1ubuntu1.2Affected
  • 1:13.99.1 to before 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.2Affected

References

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