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CVE-2001-0956 — HIGH severity vulnerability (speechd 0.54 and earlier, with the Festival or rsynth speech)

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

CVE IDCVE-2001-0956
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score7.2
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2001-09-11
Last modified2026-04-16
Descriptionspeechd 0.54 and earlier, with the Festival or rsynth speech synthesis package, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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