What is CVE-2014-4659?

CVE-2014-4659 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-02-20.

How severe is CVE-2014-4659?

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

Vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible

CVE-2014-4659

Ansible before 1.5.5 sets 0644 permissions for sources.list, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information in opportunistic circumstances by reading a file that uses the "deb http://user:pass@server:port/" format.

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 (27.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 27.8% 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-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.5/CHANGELOG.md (Release Notes)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/68234 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-4659?: CVE-2014-4659 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-02-20.
How severe is CVE-2014-4659?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.