CVE-2007-4074
EPSS 5.4%
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.
How to fix CVE-2007-4074
To remediate CVE-2007-4074, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/festival—upgrade to 1.96~beta-6 or later
Is CVE-2007-4074 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 5.4%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.96~beta-6