CVE-2014-4658
Ansible Sensitive Files Are Locally Readable
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.05%
Description
The vault subsystem in Ansible before 1.5.5 does not set the umask before creation or modification of a vault file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive key information by reading a file.
How to fix CVE-2014-4658
To remediate CVE-2014-4658, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/ansible—upgrade to 1.5.5+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.5.5 or later
- —upgrade to 1.5.5 or later
Is CVE-2014-4658 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 1.5.5+dfsg-1
- from 0, < 1.5.5
- from 0, < 1.5.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |