CVE-2016-10193: Espeak-Ruby Project Espeak-Ruby

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Espeak-Ruby Project Espeak-Ruby: up to and including 1.0.2

Published 2017-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.