CVE-2007-4074

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) Festival 1.95 beta (aka 2.0 beta) on Gentoo Linux, SUSE Linux, and possibly other distributions, is run locally with elevated privileges without requiring authentication, which allows local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the local daemon on port 1314, a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-0956. NOTE: this issue is local in some environments, but remote on others.

Affected products

Centre For Speech Technology Research Gentoo Linux: festival_1.95_beta
Suse Linux: all versions

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170477
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26229
http://secunia.com/advisories/27271
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-10.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490465/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25069
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35606
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170477
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26229
http://secunia.com/advisories/27271

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