CVE-2023-4237

Summary

CVECVE-2023-4237
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-04 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-12-01 12:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. When creating a new keypair, the ec2_key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output. This flaw allows an attacker to fetch those keys from the log files, compromising the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Collection All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2229979 – (CVE-2023-4237) CVE-2023-4237 ansible automation platform: ec2_key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
RHBA-2023:5666 access.redhat.com
cve-details MISC access.redhat.com
RHBA-2023:5653 access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 995562 Python (Pip) Security Update for ansible-core (GHSA-ww3m-ffrm-qvqv)
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