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CVE-2014-4996 — VladTheEnterprising

MEDIUM

CVE-2014-4996 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.5) CWE-59 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 write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack

Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 6, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs37th percentile — riskier than 37% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.31%0.62%0.93%0.1%0.4%May 26Sep 26Nov 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
💎VladTheEnterprising

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Description

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}.

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-2014-4996. 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

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Frequently Asked Questions

`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}`.
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CVE-2014-4996: VladTheEnterprising (Medium 5.5)