TI-2016-08270 Aliases CVE-2016-10194 GHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2

The festivaltts4r gem for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via…

MEDIUM 47CWE-77Published 2017-03-03 · Updated 2024-08-06

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-77.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.02549 85th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	festivaltts4r (RubyGems)	up to 0.2.0	—	No fix listed	GHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
festivaltts4r (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected up to 0.2.0 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:festivaltts4r_project:festivaltts4r::::::ruby::*	all versions	Vulnerable	Festivaltts4r Project

cpe:2.3:a:festivaltts4r_project:festivaltts4r:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* Versions all versions Vulnerable ·Festivaltts4r Project

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2016-10194
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2

References

Patch 3

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10194

Other 1

https://github.com/spejman/festivaltts4r

Sources

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