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CVE-2014-0022

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0022 describes a vulnerability in the installUpdates function of yum-cron/yum-cron.py in yum versions 3.4.3 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass RPM package signing restrictions by submitting an unsigned package due to improper checking of the sigCheckPkg function's return value. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability is of medium severity, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that could lead to partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:baseurl:yum:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:baseurl:yum:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:baseurl:yum:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:baseurl:yum:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0241 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: yum-updatesd-1:0.9-6.el5_10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0022Important

yum: yum-cron installs unsigned packages

Jan 13, 2014

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/56637
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/65119
yum.baseurl.org / gitweb