Medium: cloud-init

Issue Overview:

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’. (CVE-2019-0816)

Affected Packages:

cloud-init

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update cloud-init to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    cloud-init-19.3-2.amzn2.noarch  
  
src:  
    cloud-init-19.3-2.amzn2.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2019-0816

Mitre: CVE-2019-0816