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CVE-2009-1894

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1894 describes a race condition in PulseAudio versions 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14, allowing local users to achieve privilege escalation. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 7.2, is easily exploitable locally with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 86/100, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:0.9.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-9208 · Jul 20, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0074 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 3,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-1894Important

pulseaudio: privilege escalation flaw via pulseaudio re-exec

Jul 16, 2009

References

blog.cr0.org / 2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html
admin.fedoraproject.org / updates/pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.el5.2
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/35868
secunia.com / advisories/35886
secunia.com / advisories/35896
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/51804
taviso.decsystem.org / research.html
akitasecurity.nl / advisory.php
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1838
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / archive/1/505052/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/35721
ExploitPatch
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-804-1