Description
The espeak-ruby gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a string to the speak, save, bytes or bytes_wav method in lib/espeak/speech.rb.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | espeak-ruby | < 1.0.3 | 1.0.3 | GHSA-4jm3-pfpf-h54p |
References
- [oss-security] 20170202 Re: CVE requests: code injection in rubygem espeak-ruby and code injection in rubygem festivaltts4r mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20170131 CVE requests: code injection in rubygem espeak-ruby and code injection in rubygem festivaltts4r mailing-list
- https://github.com/dejan/espeak-ruby/issues/7