What is CVE-2014-4658?

CVE-2014-4658 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat 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 Red Hat 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

Published 2020-02-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (33.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 34th percentile — 33.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Ansible

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.5/CHANGELOG.md (Release Notes)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/68233 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-4658?: CVE-2014-4658 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat 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.