CVE-2018-16837 Information

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 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105700 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3460 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3462 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3463 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16837 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16837 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00012.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8