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Fencer Intel
high 7.0

CVE-2014-4995 json

VladTheEnterprising allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading MySQL root password from temporary file

published 2018-01-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-86cf-g34f-7462 , EUVD-2022-3122

cvss
7.0
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Race condition in lib/vlad/dba/mysql.rb in the VladTheEnterprising gem 0.2 for Ruby allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the MySQL root password from a temporary file before it is removed.

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems VladTheEnterprising
<=0.2
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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