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CVE-2016-10194

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% 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-77

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.

Affected products

• Festivaltts4R Project Festivaltts4R: all versions

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/spejman/festivaltts4r/issues/1
• 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/spejman/festivaltts4r/issues/1

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