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CVE-2023-4237 (GCVE-0-2023-4237)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-04 14:23
Modified
2025-11-20 18:27
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-497 - Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere
Summary
A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. When creating a new keypair, the ec2_key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output. This flaw allows an attacker to fetch those keys from the log files, compromising the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 |
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9 |
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