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CVE-2016-10194 (festivaltts4r): festivaltts4r Gem for Ruby Arbitrary Command Execution

ADVISORIES

GEM

festivaltts4r

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 9.8 (Critical)

PATCHED VERSIONS

None.

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.