Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2014-0177

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0177 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in the 'am' function of lib/hub/commands.rb within github hub versions prior to 1.12.1. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on a temporary patch file. With a CVSS score of 3.6, it is considered low severity, requiring local access and user interaction to achieve partial integrity and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:github:hub:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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 (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/github/hubFixed in: 1.12.1
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: hubFixed in: 1.12.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-x5m6-jh4r-34mvmedium

Hub Package Arbitrary File Overwrite

Feb 15, 2022

References

secunia.com / advisories/58273
URL Repurposed
github.com / github/hub/commit/016ec99d25b1cb83cb4367e541177aa431beb600
ExploitPatch