What is CVE-2014-4660?

CVE-2014-4660 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-2014-4660?

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

Vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible

CVE-2014-4660

Ansible before 1.5.5 constructs filenames containing user and password fields on the basis of deb lines in sources.list, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging existence of 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 (29.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 29.8% 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/68231 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/26/19 (Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4660 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/c4b5e46054c74176b2446c82d4df1a2610eddc08 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-4660?: CVE-2014-4660 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-2014-4660?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.