CVE-2018-16837

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16837
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16837.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16837
Aliases
Downstream
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Published
2018-10-23T15:29:00.607Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:53:18.600825273Z
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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:ansible_engine",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:ansible_tower",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.3.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.3.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ansible/ansible

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ansible/ansible
Events
Introduced
2c2dd1a1b3eca6248979e04e70afff6dd3fcf366
Last affected
0a07068054090d5b78b27496aa251be74c484b45
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.5"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.6"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.7"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.7"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.5
2.6
2.7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16837.json"