CVE-2023-4237

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2023-10-04

Last modified

2026-02-25

Weaknesses

CWE-497

Affected products

• Ansible Automation Platform (Redhat)
• Ansible Automation Platform Cloud Billing (Redhat)
• Ansible Collection (Redhat)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:5653
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:5666
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4237
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2229979
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241025-0002/