CVE-2009-1894

highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.007 · 54 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

0.74% (54th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Race condition in PulseAudio 0.9.9, 0.9.10, and 0.9.14 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving creation of a hard link, related to the application setting LD_BIND_NOW to 1, and then calling execv on the target of the /proc/self/exe symlink.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.06.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-362USprimary

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-9207PulseAudio setuid - Local Privilege Escalationfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-9208PulseAudio setuid (Ubuntu 9.04 / Slackware 12.2.0) - Local Privilege Escalationfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
pulseaudio pulseaudio= 0.9.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pulseaudio pulseaudio= 0.9.14nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pulseaudio pulseaudio= 0.9.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2009-07-17modified 2026-06-16

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references (32)

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