Security advisory

{
  "id": "1d006c4e481794006792386bed443388c35c42245602e139c2a19705bb3dcbe4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16837",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-16837",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-16837",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-16837",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-16837",
        "GHSA-hwrm-63v2-42g4",
        "PYSEC-2018-44"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "2c2dd1a1b3eca6248979e04e70afff6dd3fcf366"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "0a07068054090d5b78b27496aa251be74c484b45"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.5"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.6"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.7"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.7"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.5",
            "2.6",
            "2.7"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16837.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:15.186352676Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/",
        "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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00012.html",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16837"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_engine:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:ansible_engine",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:ansible_tower",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "3.3.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "3.3.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-16837",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429115,
  "published_at": "2018-10-23T15:29:00.607+00:00"
}