Upstream information

CVE-2023-4237 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.8 6.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low High
User Interaction None Required
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1214115 [NEW]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Manager Client Tools Beta for SLE 15 ansible Ignore
SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 15 ansible Not affected
SUSE Manager Proxy Module 4.3 ansible Not affected
SUSE Manager Tools 15 ansible Not affected
SUSE Manager Tools 15-BETA ansible Ignore
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 ansible Won't fix
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 ansible1 Won't fix
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 ansible1 Won't fix
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 ansible Won't fix
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 ansible1 Won't fix
SUSE Manager Proxy Module 4.2 ansible Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 ansible Won't fix


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Aug 8 14:03:38 2023
CVE page last modified: Mon Apr 15 16:11:47 2024