PT-2020-7682 · Ansible+1 · Ansible+2

Published 2014-04-22 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2014-4658

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ansible versions prior to 1.5.5

Description The issue concerns the vault subsystem in Ansible, where it fails to set the umask before creating or modifying a vault file. This oversight allows local users to access sensitive key information by reading the file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.5.5, update to version 1.5.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1523

CVE-2014-4658

GHSA-5G4V-2PC6-4HH4

PYSEC-2020-200

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ansible

Ansible-Core

References · 16

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2020-200 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4658 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-4658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-5g4v-2pc6-4hh4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4658 · Security Note
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible · Note
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.5/CHANGELOG.md · Note
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/a0e027fe362fbc209dbeff2f72d6e95f39885c69 · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-200.yaml · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/26/19 · Note
• https://securityfocus.com/bid/68233 · Note