CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2014-4996
Medium (5.5) in vladtheenterprising project vladtheenterprising. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
lib/vlad/dba/mysql.rb in the VladTheEnterprising gem 0.2 for Ruby allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/my.cnf.#{target_host}.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vladtheenterprising_project:vladtheenterprising
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-x4vj-279x-qwf2 | RubyGems | VladTheEnterprising | <=0.2 | no fix published |