CVE-2010-3996: Cstr Festival

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

festival_server in Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) Festival, probably 2.0.95-beta and earlier, places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Affected products

• Cstr Festival: up to and including 2.0.95; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.95 only; version 1.96 only

Published 2010-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.