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CVE-2016-10194

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10194 describes a critical command injection vulnerability in the festivaltts4r Ruby gem, affecting the festivaltts4r_project. Remote attackers can execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into the to_speech or to_mp3 methods. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the high FAUCET Risk Score of 80/100 indicates significant potential risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:festivaltts4r_project:festivaltts4r:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0256 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-f7f4-5w9j-23p2critical

festivaltts4r allows arbitrary command execution

Oct 24, 2017

References

github.com / spejman/festivaltts4r/issues/1
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/14
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/5
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory