CVE-2019-0816 (GCVE-0-2019-0816)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-09 02:29 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:58
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Summary
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'.
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Security Feature Bypass
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Microsoft Ubuntu Server Affected: 18.04-LTS
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Date Public
2019-03-12 00:00
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