festival: insecure library loading vulnerability
Published Nov 5, 2010
6.9
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.32%
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.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of festival as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 4, 2026.
Score over time
2022-2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
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| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2026 | 0.32% (0.00322) | 22.95th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.33% (0.00328) | 24.33th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.05% (0.00047) | 11.67th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 32.28th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 10, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 30.63th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 28.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 0.95% (0.00950) | 13.46th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
No CWE recorded.
References (9)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-10/msg00028.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44395 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3996 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642507 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650556 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3996
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3996
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-10/msg00028.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44395 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3996 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642507 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650556 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3996 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3996 |
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