CVE-2016-10194 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-03-03

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 1.0% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:festivaltts4r_project:festivaltts4r:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-0223	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.
Github GHSA	GHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2	festivaltts4r allows arbitrary command execution

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01006.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Festivaltts4r Project Festivaltts4r

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-03T15:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:14:42.902Z

Reserved: 2017-02-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-10194

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-03T15:59:00.413

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-10194

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-77

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