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CVE-2014-4658 (GCVE-0-2014-4658)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-20 14:30 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:20
VLAI
Summary
The vault subsystem in Ansible before 1.5.5 does not set the umask before creation or modification of a vault file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive key information by reading a file.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-06-24 00:00
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