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CVE-2010-3996
festival_server in Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) Festival, probably 2.0.95-beta and earlier, places a zero-length directory…
Medium6.9EPSS 0.32%
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Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
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Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (5)
- 44395 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [opensuse-updates] 20101022 openSUSE-SU-2010:0756-1 (moderate): festival security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642507 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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