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CVE-2014-4659

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4659 describes a vulnerability in Ansible versions prior to 1.5.5 where the sources.list file is created with insecure 0644 permissions. This could allow local attackers to read sensitive credentials if they are embedded in the "deb http://user:pass@server:port/" format within the file. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and high confidentiality 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
< 1.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 1.5.5

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-6667-f46p-pg88medium

Ansible sets unsafe permissions for sources.list

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-4659Moderate

ansible: information disclosure through incorrect file permission

Jun 26, 2014

References

github.com / ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.5/CHANGELOG.md
Release Notes
securityfocus.com / bid/68234
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry