CVE-2018-16837

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.

• CWE-214
• CWE-311

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
• 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/105700Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3460Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3462Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3463Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16837Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16837Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
• 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/105700Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3460Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3462Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3463Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16837Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396Third Party Advisory

Published

Oct 23, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

• How Strix found a critical auth bypass in etcdStrix autonomously discovered a critical authentication bypass in etcd, later designated CVE-2026-33413.
• Autonomous PentestingAI agents that find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities like this one across your applications.
• PR ReviewsPentest every pull request so vulnerable code is caught before it ships to production.
• AI Penetration TestingHow AI-driven penetration testing continuously covers your attack surface.

• CVE-2018-16822SeaCMS 6.64 allows SQL Injection via the upload/admin/admin_…
• CVE-2018-1683IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty could allow a remot…5.9
• CVE-2018-16831Smarty before 3.1.33-dev-4 allows attackers to bypass the tr…
• CVE-2018-16832CSRF in the anti-csrf decorator in xunfeng 0.2.0 allows an a…
• CVE-2018-16833Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central 10.0.271 has XSS via the "…
• CVE-2018-16836Rubedo through 3.4.0 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerab…9.8
• CVE-2018-16838A flaw was found in sssd Group Policy Objects implementation…5.4
• CVE-2018-16839Curl versions 7.33.0 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a buff…4.3
• CVE-2018-1684IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 through 9.1 is vulnerable to a error wi…5.3
• CVE-2018-16840A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl versions from 7…9.8
• CVE-2018-16841Samba from version 4.3.0 and before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7 a…6.5
• CVE-2018-16842Curl versions 7.14.1 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a heap…4.4