Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting espeak-ruby package, versions <1.0.3


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.54% (78th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ESPEAKRUBY-20357
  • published 3 Apr 2017
  • disclosed 12 Apr 2016
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade espeak-ruby to version 1.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. User input is passed as an argument in the speak, save, bytes or bytes_wav methods in lib/espeak/speech.rb, allowing a malicious user to run arbitrary code or see environment variables.