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CVE-2014-3498
The user module in ansible before 1.6.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands.
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The user module in ansible before 1.6.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansibleGHSA-4cvm-5776-jx9f (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/8ed6350e65c82292a631f08845dfaacffe7f07f5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335551 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0002 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4cvm-5776-jx9f (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2014-3498)Record last updated .