CVE-2018-16837

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16837
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16837.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16837
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-10-23T15:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-30T02:35:01.324224Z
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

Git / github.com/ansible/ansible

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ansible/ansible
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Last affected
Last affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.0.1
0.0.2
0.01
0.3
0.7

v1.*

v1.0
v1.1
v1.2
v1.4.0
v1.5.0
v1.5.1
v1.6.0

Other

v1_last

v2.*

v2.0.0-0.1.alpha1
v2.0.0-0.2.alpha2
v2.0.0-0.3.beta1
v2.0.0-0.4.beta2
v2.0.0-0.5.beta3
v2.5.0
v2.5.0b1
v2.5.0b2
v2.5.0rc1
v2.5.0rc2
v2.5.0rc3
v2.6.0
v2.6.0a1
v2.6.0a2
v2.6.0rc1
v2.6.0rc2
v2.6.0rc3
v2.6.0rc4
v2.6.0rc5
v2.7.0
v2.7.0.a1
v2.7.0b1
v2.7.0rc1
v2.7.0rc2
v2.7.0rc3
v2.7.0rc4