Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Ansible Sensitive Files Are Locally Readable 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
pypi	ansible	>=0 <1.5.5	1.5.5
debian 13	ansible	>=0 <1.5.5+dfsg-1	1.5.5+dfsg-1
debian 12	ansible	>=0 <1.5.5+dfsg-1	1.5.5+dfsg-1
debian 14	ansible	>=0 <1.5.5+dfsg-1	1.5.5+dfsg-1

Aliases

1. CVE-2014-46582. NVD-2014-46583. OSV-2014-46584. OSV-DEBIAN-2014-46585. GCVE-2014-46586. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2014-4658

References

1. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/a0e027fe362fbc209dbeff2f72d6e95f39885c692. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/release1.5.5/CHANGELOG.md3. https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-200.yaml4. https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133853/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68233

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