CVE-2019-0816
A security feature bypass exists in Azure SSH Keypairs, due to a change in the provisioning logic...
CVE-2019-0816 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.1) in Canonical Ubuntu Server, published April 9, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.40%, the 72nd percentile. Fixed in cloud-init 18.3-6.
A 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'.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
5.1
A 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'.
- Record
CVE-2019-0816- CVSS 3.0
- 5.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 1.9 Low
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-706
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
A 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'.
- Record
CVE-2019-0816- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-1569 No score
A 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'.
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EUVD-2019-1569- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-gjp8-2rjx-f9mg
5.1
A security feature bypass exists in Azure SSH Keypairs, due to a change in the provisioning logic...
A 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'.
- Record
GHSA-gjp8-2rjx-f9mg- CVSS 3.0
- 5.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-706
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
5.1
A 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'.
- Record
CVE-2019-0816- CVSS 3.0
- 5.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2019-0816
5.1
A 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'.
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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-0816- CVSS 3.0
- 5.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
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OSVRHBA-2019:1992
5.4
Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: cloud-init bug fix and enhancement update
- Record
RHBA-2019:1992- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVRHSA-2019:0597
5.4
Red Hat Security Advisory: cloud-init security update
- Record
RHSA-2019:0597- CVSS 3.0
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2019-0816
5.1
A 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'.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2019-0816- CVSS 3.0
- 5.1 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2019:2633-1 No score
Security update for cloud-init
This update for cloud-init to version 19.2 fixes the following issues:
Security issue fixed:
- CVE-2019-0816: Fixed the unnecessary extra ssh keys that were added to authorized_keys (bsc#1129124).
Non-security issues fixed:
- Short circuit the conditional for identifying the sysconfig renderer (bsc#1154092, bsc#1142988).
- If /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink, break it. This will avoid netconfig from clobbering the changes cloud-init applied (bsc#1151488).
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.
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openSUSE-SU-2019:2633-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10688-1 No score
cloud-init-21.2-1.2 on GA media
These are all security issues fixed in the cloud-init-21.2-1.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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openSUSE-SU-2024:10688-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:3096-1 No score
Security update for cloud-init
This update for cloud-init to version 19.2 fixes the following issues:
Security issue fixed:
- CVE-2019-0816: Fixed the unnecessary extra ssh keys that were added to authorized_keys (bsc#1129124).
Non-security issues fixed:
- Short circuit the conditional for identifying the sysconfig renderer (bsc#1154092, bsc#1142988).
- If /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink, break it. This will avoid netconfig from clobbering the changes cloud-init applied (bsc#1151488).
- Record
SUSE-SU-2019:3096-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:3097-1 No score
Security update for cloud-init
This update for cloud-init to version 19.2 fixes the following issues:
Security issue fixed:
- CVE-2019-0816: Fixed the unnecessary extra ssh keys that were added to authorized_keys (bsc#1129124).
Non-security issues fixed:
- Short circuit the conditional for identifying the sysconfig renderer (bsc#1154092, bsc#1142988).
- If /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink, break it. This will avoid netconfig from clobbering the changes cloud-init applied (bsc#1151488).
- Record
SUSE-SU-2019:3097-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:3191-1 No score
Security update for cloud-init
This update for cloud-init fixes the following issues:
Security issue fixed:
- CVE-2019-0816: Fixed the unnecessary extra ssh keys that were added to authorized_keys (bsc#1129124).
Non-security issues fixed:
-
Add cloud-init-renderer-detect.patch (bsc#1154092, bsc#1142988)
- Short curcuit the conditional for identifying the sysconfig renderer. If we find ifup/ifdown accept the renderer as available.
-
Add cloud-init-break-resolv-symlink.patch (bsc#1151488)
- If /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink break it. This will avoid netconfig from clobbering the changes cloud-init applied.
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Update to cloud-init 19.2 (bsc#1099358)
- Remove, included upstream
- cloud-init-detect-nova.diff
- cloud-init-add-static-routes.diff
- net: add rfc3442 (classless static routes) to EphemeralDHCP (LP: #1821102)
- templates/ntp.conf.debian.tmpl: fix missing newline for pools (LP: #1836598)
- Support netplan renderer in Arch Linux [Conrad Hoffmann]
- Fix typo in publicly viewable documentation. [David Medberry]
- Add a cdrom size checker for OVF ds to ds-identify [Pengpeng Sun] (LP: #1806701)
- VMWare: Trigger the post customization script via cc_scripts module. [Xiaofeng Wang] (LP: #1833192)
- Cloud-init analyze module: Added ability to analyze boot events. [Sam Gilson]
- Update debian eni network configuration location, retain Ubuntu setting [Janos Lenart]
- net: skip bond interfaces in get_interfaces [Stanislav Makar] (LP: #1812857)
- Fix a couple of issues raised by a coverity scan
- Add missing dsname for Hetzner Cloud datasource [Markus Schade]
- doc: indicate that netplan is default in Ubuntu now
- azure: add region and AZ properties from imds compute location metadata
- sysconfig: support more bonding options [Penghui Liao]
- cloud-init-generator: use libexec path to ds-identify on redhat systems (LP: #1833264)
- tools/build-on-freebsd: update to python3 [Gon�ri Le Bouder]
- Allow identification of OpenStack by Asset Tag [Mark T. Voelker] (LP: #1669875)
- Fix spelling error making 'an Ubuntu' consistent. [Brian Murray]
- run-container: centos: comment out the repo mirrorlist [Paride Legovini]
- netplan: update netplan key mappings for gratuitous-arp (LP: #1827238)
- freebsd: fix the name of cloudcfg VARIANT [Gon�ri Le Bouder]
- freebsd: ability to grow root file system [Gon�ri Le Bouder]
- freebsd: NoCloud data source support [Gon�ri Le Bouder] (LP: #1645824)
- Azure: Return static fallback address as if failed to find endpoint [Jason Zions (MSFT)]
- Remove, included upstream
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Follow up to update cloud-init-trigger-udev.patch (bsc#1144363)
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Update to version 19.1 (bsc#1136440, bsc#1129124)
- Record
SUSE-SU-2019:3191-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
cloud-initDebian:12 |
before 18.3-6 | 18.3-6 |
cloud-initDebian:13 |
before 18.3-6 | 18.3-6 |
cloud-initDebian:14 |
before 18.3-6 | 18.3-6 |
cloud-initRed Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream |
before 0:18.5-1.el8.4 | 0:18.5-1.el8.4 |
cloud-initRed Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server |
before 0:18.2-1.el7_6.2 | 0:18.2-1.el7_6.2 |
cloud-initSUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP1 |
before 19.2-8.11.1 | 19.2-8.11.1 |
cloud-initSUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 |
before 19.2-5.18.1 | 19.2-5.18.1 |
cloud-initSUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12 |
before 19.2-37.33.1 | 19.2-37.33.1 |
cloud-initUbuntu:16.04:LTS |
before 18.5-45-g3554ffe8-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, plus listed versions 0.7.7~bzr1149-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1154-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1155-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1156-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1156-0ubuntu2 Show 34 moreShow less0.7.7~bzr1160-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1176-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1182-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1189-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1192-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1192-0ubuntu20.7.7~bzr1200-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1208-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1209-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1212-0ubuntu10.7.7~bzr1246-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.7~bzr1256-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.8-1-g3705bb5-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.8-1-g3705bb5-0ubuntu1~16.04.30.7.8-49-g9e904bb-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.8-49-g9e904bb-0ubuntu1~16.04.20.7.8-49-g9e904bb-0ubuntu1~16.04.30.7.8-49-g9e904bb-0ubuntu1~16.04.40.7.9-0ubuntu1~16.04.20.7.9-48-g1c795b9-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.9-90-g61eb03fe-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.9-113-g513e99e0-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.9-153-g16a7302f-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.9-153-g16a7302f-0ubuntu1~16.04.20.7.9-233-ge586fe35-0ubuntu1~16.04.10.7.9-233-ge586fe35-0ubuntu1~16.04.217.1-27-geb292c18-0ubuntu1~16.04.117.1-46-g7acc9e68-0ubuntu1~16.04.117.2-35-gf576b2a2-0ubuntu1~16.04.218.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu1~16.04.118.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu1~16.04.218.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~16.04.218.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.218.5-21-g8ee294d5-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 |
18.5-45-g3554ffe8-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 |
cloud-initUbuntu:18.04:LTS |
before 18.5-45-g3554ffe8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, plus listed versions 17.1-18-gd4f70470-0ubuntu117.1-25-g17a15f9e-0ubuntu1~17.10.117.1-25-g17a15f9e-0ubuntu117.1-27-geb292c18-0ubuntu117.1-41-g76243487-0ubuntu1 Show 28 moreShow less17.1-46-g7acc9e68-0ubuntu117.1-51-g05b2308a-0ubuntu117.1-53-ga5dc0f42-0ubuntu117.1-58-g703241a3-0ubuntu117.1-60-ga30a3bb5-0ubuntu117.2-1-g4089e20c-0ubuntu117.2-9-gdf24daa8-0ubuntu117.2-13-g6299e8d0-0ubuntu117.2-20-g32a6a176-0ubuntu117.2-25-gc03bdd3d-0ubuntu117.2-30-gf7deaf15-0ubuntu117.2-34-g644048e3-0ubuntu118.1-0ubuntu118.1-5-g40e77380-0ubuntu118.1-17-g97012fbb-0ubuntu118.1-23-gde34dc7c-0ubuntu118.1-26-g685f9901-0ubuntu118.1-35-ge0f644b7-0ubuntu118.1-35-ge0f644b7-0ubuntu218.2-0ubuntu118.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu118.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu218.2-9-g49b562c9-0ubuntu118.2-14-g6d48d265-0ubuntu118.2-27-g6ef92c98-0ubuntu1~18.04.118.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~18.04.218.4-0ubuntu1~18.04.118.5-21-g8ee294d5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 |
18.5-45-g3554ffe8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 |
cloud-initopenSUSE:Leap 15.1 |
before 19.2-lp151.2.9.1 | 19.2-lp151.2.9.1 |
cloud-initopenSUSE:Tumbleweed |
before 21.2-1.2 | 21.2-1.2 |
History
| When | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | aliases, products | EUVD |
| 2026-11-02 | created | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
References
portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0816
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00018.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-0816
github.com/advisories/GHSA-gjp8-2rjx-f9mg
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-0816
access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:1992
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bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1687563
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1728625
security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2019/rhba-2019_1992.json
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0816
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1680165
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-0816
support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4491476/extraneous-ssh-public-keys-added-to-authorized-keys-file-on-linux-vm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0597
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification
security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2019/rhsa-2019_0597.json
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20193096-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1099358
bugzilla.suse.com/1129124
bugzilla.suse.com/1136440
bugzilla.suse.com/1142988
bugzilla.suse.com/1144363
bugzilla.suse.com/1151488
bugzilla.suse.com/1154092
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0816
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20193097-1
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20193191-1
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-0816
lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/BTJ6XBYKM5GEQXOHG36W55QBQGBBSDPD
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8631
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8632