festivaltts4r Gem for Ruby Arbitrary Command Execution
Published: April 23, 2016
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2016-10194 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2
- Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/spejman/festivaltts4r/issues/1
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 9.8 (Critical)
PATCHED VERSIONS
None available.
DESCRIPTION
festivaltts4r passes user modifiable strings directly to a shell command. An attacker can execute malicious commands by modifying the strings that are passed as arguments to the to_speech and and to_mp3 methods in lib/festivaltts4r/festival4r.rb library.