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VladTheEnterprising allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading MySQL root password from temporary file

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 26, 2023

Package

bundler VladTheEnterprising (RubyGems)

Affected versions

<= 0.2

Patched versions

None

Description

Race condition in lib/vlad/dba/mysql.rb in the VladTheEnterprising gem 0.2 for Ruby allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the MySQL root password from a temporary file before it is removed.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 10, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Jan 26, 2023
Last updated Jan 26, 2023

Severity

High
7.0
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-4995

GHSA ID

GHSA-86cf-g34f-7462

Source code

No known source code
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