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Ubuntu: USN-4072-1 (CVE-2018-16837): Ansible vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4072-1 (CVE-2018-16837): Ansible vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/23/2018
Created
07/27/2019
Added
07/25/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ansible

References

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