pysec-2018-44
Vulnerability from pysec
Published
2018-10-23 15:29
Modified
2021-07-02 02:41
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.

Impacted products
Name purl
ansible pkg:pypi/ansible
Aliases


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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "ansible",
            purl: "pkg:pypi/ansible",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "2.7",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "2.7.1",
                  },
                  {
                     introduced: "2.6",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "2.6.7",
                  },
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "2.5.11",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
         versions: [
            "1.0",
            "1.1",
            "1.2",
            "1.2.1",
            "1.2.2",
            "1.2.3",
            "1.3.0",
            "1.3.1",
            "1.3.2",
            "1.3.3",
            "1.3.4",
            "1.4",
            "1.4.1",
            "1.4.2",
            "1.4.3",
            "1.4.4",
            "1.4.5",
            "1.5",
            "1.5.1",
            "1.5.2",
            "1.5.3",
            "1.5.4",
            "1.5.5",
            "1.6",
            "1.6.1",
            "1.6.10",
            "1.6.2",
            "1.6.3",
            "1.6.4",
            "1.6.5",
            "1.6.6",
            "1.6.7",
            "1.6.8",
            "1.6.9",
            "1.7",
            "1.7.1",
            "1.7.2",
            "1.8",
            "1.8.1",
            "1.8.2",
            "1.8.3",
            "1.8.4",
            "1.9.0",
            "1.9.0.1",
            "1.9.1",
            "1.9.2",
            "1.9.3",
            "1.9.4",
            "1.9.5",
            "1.9.6",
            "2.0.0",
            "2.0.0.0",
            "2.0.0.1",
            "2.0.0.2",
            "2.0.1.0",
            "2.0.2.0",
            "2.1.0.0",
            "2.1.1.0",
            "2.1.2.0",
            "2.1.3.0",
            "2.1.4.0",
            "2.1.5.0",
            "2.1.6.0",
            "2.2.0.0",
            "2.2.1.0",
            "2.2.2.0",
            "2.2.3.0",
            "2.3.0.0",
            "2.3.1.0",
            "2.3.2.0",
            "2.3.3.0",
            "2.4.0.0",
            "2.4.1.0",
            "2.4.2.0",
            "2.4.3.0",
            "2.4.4.0",
            "2.4.5.0",
            "2.4.6.0",
            "2.5.0",
            "2.5.0a1",
            "2.5.0b1",
            "2.5.0b2",
            "2.5.0rc1",
            "2.5.0rc2",
            "2.5.0rc3",
            "2.5.1",
            "2.5.10",
            "2.5.2",
            "2.5.3",
            "2.5.4",
            "2.5.5",
            "2.5.6",
            "2.5.7",
            "2.5.8",
            "2.5.9",
            "2.6.0",
            "2.6.1",
            "2.6.2",
            "2.6.3",
            "2.6.4",
            "2.6.5",
            "2.6.6",
            "2.7.0",
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2018-16837",
   ],
   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.",
   id: "PYSEC-2018-44",
   modified: "2021-07-02T02:41:34.271290Z",
   published: "2018-10-23T15:29:00Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "REPORT",
         url: "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16837",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105700",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3463",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3462",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3460",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00012.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16837",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html",
      },
   ],
}


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