cve-2018-16837
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-23 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Ansible "User" module leaks any data which is passed on as a parameter to ssh-keygen. This could lean in undesirable situations such as passphrases credentials passed as a parameter for the ssh-keygen executable. Showing those credentials in clear text form for every user which have access just to the process list.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105700Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3460Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3462Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3463Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505Vendor Advisory
nvd@nist.govhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16837Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16837Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
[UNKNOWN]Ansible
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