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Fencer Intel
medium 5.5

CVE-2014-4659 json

Ansible sets unsafe permissions for sources.list

published 2020-02-20 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6667-f46p-pg88 , PYSEC-2020-201 , EUVD-2020-0013

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Ansible before 1.5.5 sets 0644 permissions for sources.list, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information in opportunistic circumstances by reading a file that uses the "deb http://user:pass@server:port/" format.

Patch / fix

  • pypi ansible 1.5.5
  • redhat ansible 1.5.5
  • ansible Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.5+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4659

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-4659 updated cvss 5.5

ansible: information disclosure through incorrect file permission

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 ansible Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 ansible, ansible-test Red Hat Ansible Tower 3 ansible Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 ansible Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) ansible
    +2 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) ansible Red Hat Storage 3 ansible
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi ansible
<1.5.5
1.5.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

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