CVE-2019-0816

NameCVE-2019-0816
DescriptionA security feature bypass exists in Azure SSH Keypairs, due to a change in the provisioning logic for some Linux images that use cloud-init, aka 'Azure SSH Keypairs Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs926043

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
cloud-init (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.7.6~bzr976-2+deb8u3fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch0.7.9-2+deb9u1vulnerable
buster20.2-2~deb10u2fixed
bullseye20.4.1-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm22.4.2-1+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie24.3.1-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
cloud-initsourcejessie(not affected)
cloud-initsource(unstable)18.3-6low926043

Notes

[stretch] - cloud-init <no-dsa> (Doesn't affect default provisioning for Azure, only limited use cases)
[jessie] - cloud-init <not-affected> (version uses a different mechanism to set public keys.)
https://code.launchpad.net/~jasonzio/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/363445
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4491476/extraneous-ssh-public-keys-added-to-authorized-keys-file-on-linux-vm

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