CVE-2007-4074 Command injection in n/a
Attackers can execute arbitrary commands on Festival speech synthesis servers due to default configurations allowing unauthenticated access to the local daemon.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2007-4074?
CVE-2007-4074 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Suse Suse Linux, published on 30 Jul 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-16
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4074?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Centre for Speech Technology Research Gentoo Linux, Suse Suse Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2007-4074?
Change a configuration setting.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2007-4074 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4074 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4074, GHSA-jcxv-vj45-grr9.