ALPINE-CVE-2018-16837

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-16837
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2018-16837.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2018-16837
Upstream
Published
2018-10-23T15:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-26T00:08:14.052921Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.8 / ansible

Package

Name
ansible
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ansible?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.5.11-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.3.1-r0
0.4-r0
0.5-r0
0.7-r0
0.7.1-r0
0.8-r0
0.9-r0

1.*

1.0-r0
1.0-r1
1.1-r0
1.1-r1
1.2-r1
1.2.1-r1
1.2.2-r0
1.2.3-r0
1.3.3-r0
1.3.4-r0
1.4.1-r0
1.4.3-r0
1.4.5-r0
1.5.0-r0
1.5.4-r0
1.5.5-r0
1.6.1-r0
1.6.5-r0
1.6.6-r0
1.6.7-r0
1.7.0-r0
1.7.1-r0
1.7.2-r0
1.8.0-r0
1.8.2-r0
1.8.4-r0
1.9.2-r0
1.9.2-r1
1.9.3-r0
1.9.3-r1
1.9.4-r0

2.*

2.0.0.2-r0
2.0.0.2-r1
2.0.1.0-r1
2.1.0.0-r0
2.1.1.0-r0
2.1.2.0-r0
2.2.0.0-r0
2.2.1.0-r0
2.2.1.0-r1
2.2.2.0-r0
2.3.0.0-r0
2.3.0.0-r1
2.3.1.0-r0
2.3.2.0-r0
2.4.0.0-r0
2.4.1.0-r0
2.4.2.0-r0
2.4.3.0-r0
2.5.0-r0
2.5.2-r0
2.5.4-r0
2.5.5-r0

Alpine:v3.9 / ansible

Package

Name
ansible
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ansible?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.7.1-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.3.1-r0
0.4-r0
0.5-r0
0.7-r0
0.7.1-r0
0.8-r0
0.9-r0

1.*

1.0-r0
1.0-r1
1.1-r0
1.1-r1
1.2-r1
1.2.1-r1
1.2.2-r0
1.2.3-r0
1.3.3-r0
1.3.4-r0
1.4.1-r0
1.4.3-r0
1.4.5-r0
1.5.0-r0
1.5.4-r0
1.5.5-r0
1.6.1-r0
1.6.5-r0
1.6.6-r0
1.6.7-r0
1.7.0-r0
1.7.1-r0
1.7.2-r0
1.8.0-r0
1.8.2-r0
1.8.4-r0
1.9.2-r0
1.9.2-r1
1.9.3-r0
1.9.3-r1
1.9.4-r0

2.*

2.0.0.2-r0
2.0.0.2-r1
2.0.1.0-r1
2.1.0.0-r0
2.1.1.0-r0
2.1.2.0-r0
2.2.0.0-r0
2.2.1.0-r0
2.2.1.0-r1
2.2.2.0-r0
2.3.0.0-r0
2.3.0.0-r1
2.3.1.0-r0
2.3.2.0-r0
2.4.0.0-r0
2.4.1.0-r0
2.4.2.0-r0
2.4.3.0-r0
2.5.0-r0
2.5.2-r0
2.5.4-r0
2.5.5-r0
2.6.0-r0
2.6.1-r0
2.6.3-r0
2.7.0-r0
2.7.0-r1