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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-5g4v-2pc6-4hh4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433679

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2014-4658)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5g4v-2pc6-4hh4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433679

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4658

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Threat Score: 4.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4658

BID: 68233

cwe: CWE-200