CVE-2014-4996: Vladtheenterprising Project Vladtheenterprising

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. 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}.

Affected products

• Vladtheenterprising Project Vladtheenterprising: version 0.2.0 only

Published 2018-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.