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CVE-2014-5003

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5003 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the ciborg gem 3.0.0 for Ruby. The vulnerability allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/perlbrew-installer within the chef/travis-cookbooks/ci_environment/perlbrew/recipes/default.rb script. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this flaw requires local access and low attack complexity, potentially leading to high integrity impact (arbitrary file write) but no confidentiality or 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
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ciborg_project:ciborg:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 15,903 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-g982-9r8g-6qxwmedium

Ciborg gem for Ruby allows local users to write files and gain privileges via Symlink

Jul 23, 2018

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/07/24
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/17/5
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
vapid.dhs.org / advisories/ciborg-3.0.0.html
Third Party Advisory