CVE-2018-16837
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
3 explicit affected versions
103 explicit affected versions
116 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
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.
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105700
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3460
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3462
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3463
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16837
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16837
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00012.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwrm-63v2-42g4
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/c963ef1dfbf73efea5106624eb48b346f01eaefd/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst?plain=1#L138
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/77928e6c3a2ad878b20312ce5d74d9d7741e0df0
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/b618339c321c387230d3ea523e80ad47af3de5cf
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/f50cc0b8cb399bb7b7c1ad23b94c9404f0cc6d23
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47436
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47445
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47486
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/47487
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2018-44.yaml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16837
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227105539/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105700