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CVE-2001-0956

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-09-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

speechd 0.54 and earlier, with the Festival or rsynth speech synthesis package, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• Speechio Speechd: through 0.54

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0089.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3326
• http://www.speechio.org/speechd.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7121
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-09/0089.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3326
• http://www.speechio.org/speechd.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7121

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