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Critical CVE
CVSS 9.83 sources verified·1 min read
By Lyrie Threat Intelligence·5/13/2026

CRITICAL: CVE-2016-10194 (CVSS 9.8) — festivaltts4r project festivaltts4r

CVE: CVE-2016-10194

CVSS: 9.8 (3.0) — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: CRITICAL

Status: Critical advisory

Affected

  • festivaltts4r project festivaltts4r

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.

Verified Sources

References

  • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/14
  • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/5
  • https://github.com/spejman/festivaltts4r/issues/1
  • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/14
  • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/5
  • https://github.com/spejman/festivaltts4r/issues/1

_Validated by the Lyrie Threat Intelligence Pipeline — 3 independent sources confirmed before publication. No speculation._

Lyrie Verdict

A vulnerability of this severity is exactly what Lyrie's anti-rogue-AI defense is built for: continuous, autonomous monitoring that doesn't wait for human reaction time.

Validated sources

  1. [1]NVD
  2. [2]GitHub Advisory
  3. [3]MITRE