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festivaltts4r allows arbitrary command execution

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 25, 2023

Package

bundler festivaltts4r (RubyGems)

Affected versions

<= 0.2.0

Patched versions

None

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 25, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-10194

GHSA ID

GHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2

Source code

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