CVE-2016-10193

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-284

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/14Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dejan/espeak-ruby/issues/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/14Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dejan/espeak-ruby/issues/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 3, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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