Is CVE-2007-4074 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2007-4074 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2007-4074?

CVE-2007-4074 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2007-4074?

CVE-2007-4074 has an EPSS score of 5.43% (92th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2007-4074?

Upgrade festival on debian 11 to 1.96~beta-6 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2007-4074

HIGHEPSS 92th pctl

10.0

CVSS v2

NVD

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.

CWE-16

How to fix

Remediation Available

festivalDebian

Fixed in:1.96~beta-6CVE-2007-4074

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

5.43%probability of exploitation in 30 days

92ndpercentile

High risk: more likely to be exploited than 92% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory2

Other references6

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-23.