Vulnerability in Centre For Speech Technology Research Gentoo Linux
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.054 (92.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.054 · newest: 0.054 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Centre For Speech Technology Research Gentoo Linux — versions festival_1.95_beta
- SUSE Linux
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/27271 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490465/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/25069 (vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-10.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/26229 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35606 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00006.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi