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Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

CVE-2023-4237

High
7.8/10

Summary

A 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. This issue affects versions from 2.8.0a1.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-497 - Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

The application does not properly prevent sensitive system-level information from being accessed by unauthorized actors who do not have the same level of access to the underlying system as the application does.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published