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CVE-2014-4039

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4039 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in ppc64-diag 2.6.1, affecting various Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise Linux distributions. The flaw stems from insecure permissions (0775) on /tmp/diagSEsnap and its contained snapH.tar.gz archive, allowing local users to read sensitive files like /var/log/messages and /etc/yaboot.conf. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), this vulnerability requires local access and has a low impact, primarily leading to confidentiality breaches. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ppc64-diag_project:ppc64-diag:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 44th 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ppc64-diag-0:2.6.7-4.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ppc64-diag-0:2.6.7-6.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-4039Moderate

ppc64-diag: multiple temporary file races

Jun 13, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-07/msg00018.html
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0383.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1320.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
secunia.com / advisories/60616
securityfocus.com / bid/68086