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CVE-2016-10193

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The espeak-ruby gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a string to the speak, save, bytes or bytes_wav method in lib/espeak/speech.rb.

Affected products

• Espeak-Ruby Project Espeak-Ruby: through 1.0.2

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/14
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/5
• https://github.com/dejan/espeak-ruby/issues/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/14
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/5
• https://github.com/dejan/espeak-ruby/issues/7

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