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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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