CVE-2018-16837

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
2018-10-23T15:29:00.607Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:23:40.744453Z
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
2c2dd1a1b3eca6248979e04e70afff6dd3fcf366
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
8ce3bd6deaa0a0274a921c0137cbd804ffc312d0
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
0a07068054090d5b78b27496aa251be74c484b45
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.7"
        }
    ]
}

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

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.3.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16837.json"