CVE-2024-11586

Ubuntu's implementation of pulseaudio can be crashed by a malicious program if a bluetooth headset is connected.

Published: 2024-11-23 Last update: 2025-08-26 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
View at NVD, CVE.org, EUVD

CVE-2024-11586 is rated Low Risk (18.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.03%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-11586

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-21 0.05% 0.03% -0.02%
2 2025-11-18 0.04% 0.05% +0.01%
3 2024-11-23 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-11586

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:H)
Even with access, the exploit needs extra luck, timing, or a fussy environment to actually work.
Privileges required (PR:H)
They need powerful rights—admin, root, or similar—before this pays off.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 0.3 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-11586

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-11586

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2024-11586 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (pulseaudio), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-11586
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-11586 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (pulseaudio), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): not-affected 7, needed 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-11586

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-11586

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
pulseaudio pulseaudio — cpe:2.3:a:pulseaudio:pulseaudio:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-11586

cvelogic Threat Intelligence