CVE-2001-0956: Speechio Speechd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

speechd 0.54 and earlier, with the Festival or rsynth speech synthesis package, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Affected products

• Speechio Speechd: up to and including 0.54

Published 2001-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.