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CVE-2014-4995 — VladTheEnterprising

HIGH

CVE-2014-4995 is a high-severity (CVSS 7) Information Exposure vulnerability in VladTheEnterprising. The records list no fixed version yet; check the vendor advisory below and apply the mitigations in the meantime.

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

Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 28, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.3%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs21th percentile — riskier than 21% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.26%0.52%0.78%0.1%0.3%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
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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.

Affected Packages

1 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
💎RubyGemsVladTheEnterprisingall versionsNo fix

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
vladtheenterprisingvladtheenterprising_project
1 version
0.2.0

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for VladTheEnterprising, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Remediation status

    The records we use list no patched version of VladTheEnterprising for CVE-2014-4995. Check the maintainer's advisory, and where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.
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CVE-2014-4995: VladTheEnterprising (High 7)