National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability
Database

    Vulnerabilities Detail

CVE-2018-16837 Detail

Current 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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  10/23/2018
View Analysis Description

Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.8 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 1.8

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.1 LOW
Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9

Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105700 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3460 Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461 Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3462 Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3463 Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16837 Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16837 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00012.html Mailing List Vendor Advisory

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Information Leak / Disclosure (CWE-200)

Change History

5 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-16837
NVD Published Date:
10/23/2018
NVD Last Modified:
01/28/2019