{"cve":"CVE-2009-1894","nvd":{"published":"2009-07-17T16:30:00.920","modified":"2026-06-16T23:08:18.323","status":"Modified","description":"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_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-362"],"references":["http://blog.cr0.org/2009/07/old-school-local-root-vulnerability-in.html","http://secunia.com/advisories/35868","http://secunia.com/advisories/35886","http://secunia.com/advisories/35896","http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-13.xml"],"products":["pulseaudio:pulseaudio"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:54:07.895733559+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2009-1894","score":0.00736,"percentile":0.54484,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}