CVE-2007-4074
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-16
- EPSS score
- 5.4% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4058)
- Published
- July 30, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4058 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- centre for speech technology research / gentoo linux
- suse / suse linux
Certified products that may be affected
4 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise OpenSSL 1 Cryptographic Module - SUSE LLC - FIPS 140 5238 - active
- SUSE Linux Enterprise OpenSSL 3 Cryptographic Module - SUSE LLC - FIPS 140 5096 - active
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 - SUSE LLC - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-1214-2025 - active
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server V8, Service Pack 3, RC4, with certification-sles-eal3 package - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0234-2004 - archived
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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27271(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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