CVE-2007-4074

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-4074
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-07-30 17:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-16 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Centre For Speech Technology Research Gentoo Linux festival_1.95_beta All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Bug 170477 - app-accessibility/festival: privilege elevation with current default setup af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2007:021 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Festival: Privilege elevation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo festival Privilege Escalation - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Festival Insecure Command Local Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
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