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01 Record

CVE-2020-16123

Bypass of snapd pulseaudio restrictions

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: canonical
CNA base score4.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

02 Description

Bypass of snapd pulseaudio restrictions

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
0.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 24.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
4.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2020-12-03 23:15Z5 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-16 19:20Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2020-07-29
Assigning CNA
canonical
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 4.4)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
  • CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
Data version
5.1
Document digest
b0ce800db48b0b0b81a49c612cebbef053ab2228f89aecf220805b464781eee9

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Canonicalpulseaudio1:13.99.3-1 to < 1:13.99.3-1ubuntu2, 1:13.99.2-1 to < 1:13.99.2-1ubuntu2.1, 1:13.99.1-1 to < 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8, 1:11.1-1 to < 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.11, 1:8.0-0 to < 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.15—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • pulseaudio
    Fixed in 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.15

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

  • pulseaudio
    Fixed in 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.11

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • pulseaudio
    Fixed in 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.8

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.