CVE-2018-16837

Aliases:GHSA-hwrm-63v2-42g4PYSEC-2018-44
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 22
Modified
Published: 23 Oct 2018, 15:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 10:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.0 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.02% LOW
0% probability -0.02%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 Oct 2018, 15:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 10:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.02%• Percentile: 7%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-311•Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

    The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission.

  • CWE-214•Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information

    A process is invoked with sensitive command-line arguments, environment variables, or other elements that can be seen by other processes on the operating system.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0 | 9.0

  • PyPI•ansible

    ≥ 2.7.0a1, < 2.7.1 | ≥ 2.6.0a1, < 2.6.7 | < 2.5.11

  • redhat•ansible_engine

    2.0 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7

  • redhat•ansible_tower

    3.3.0

  • suse•package_hub

    na

  • [unknown]•ansible

    n/a

References (27)