CVE-2007-4074: Centre For Speech Technology Research Gentoo Linux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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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Published 2007-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.