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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-5xm4-jmpw-p6j3)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433081

Description

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

 - Ansible before 1.5.5 constructs filenames containing user and password fields on the basis of deb lines in
 sources.list, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive credential information in opportunistic
 circumstances by leveraging existence of a file that uses the "deb http://user:pass@server:port/" format.
 (CVE-2014-4660)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5xm4-jmpw-p6j3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433081

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/12/2025

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-2014-4660

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: 6/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4660

BID: 68231

cwe: CWE-200