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CVE-2016-10194
The festivaltts4r gem for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a string to the (1)…
Critical9.8EPSS 2.5%
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- mitre
Description
The festivaltts4r gem for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a string to the (1) to_speech or (2) to_mp3 method in lib/festivaltts4r/festival4r.rb.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsfestivaltts4rGHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- [oss-security] 20170202 Re: CVE requests: code injection in rubygem espeak-ruby and code injection in rubygem festivaltts4r (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170131 CVE requests: code injection in rubygem espeak-ruby and code injection in rubygem festivaltts4r (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/spejman/festivaltts4r/issues/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- 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 Advisory GHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .