What is CVE-2014-4658?

CVE-2014-4658 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-02-20.

How severe is CVE-2014-4658?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Redhat Ansible

CVE-2014-4658

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.004 (34.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Redhat Ansible
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-4658?: CVE-2014-4658 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-02-20.
How severe is CVE-2014-4658?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.