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CVE-2019-0804

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-0804 describes an information disclosure vulnerability within the Azure WaLinuxAgent (WALA) that affects Microsoft's Azure Linux Agent. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows an authenticated attacker to remotely access sensitive information due to the insecure creation of swap files on resource disks. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.2.38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:walinuxagent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0525 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux Guest Agent
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: WALinuxAgent-0:2.2.32-1.el8_0.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2019-Mar/CVE-2019-0804Important

Azure Linux Agent Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Mar 12, 2019
redhatCVE-2019-0804Moderate

WALinuxAgent: swapfile created with weak permissions

Mar 12, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00037.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:1527
portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0804
MitigationPatchVendor Advisory