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Low severity3.3NVD Advisory· Published May 15, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-11931

CVE-2020-11931

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;

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Affected products

7
  • Canonical/pulseaudiov5
    Range: 1:8.0
  • Ubuntu/PulseAudiollm-fuzzy
  • Pulseaudio/Pulseaudio
    cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: <=1.8.0
  • Canonical/Ubuntu Linux4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

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