CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20735
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-01-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
An issue was discovered in BMC PATROL Agent through 11.3.01. It was found that the PatrolCli application can allow for lateral movement and escalation of privilege inside a Windows Active Directory environment. It was found that by default the PatrolCli / PATROL Agent application only verifies if the password provided for the given username is correct; it does not verify the permissions of the user on the network. This means if you have PATROL Agent installed on a high value target (domain controller), you can use a low privileged domain user to authenticate with PatrolCli and then connect to the domain controller and run commands as SYSTEM. This means any user on a domain can escalate to domain admin through PATROL Agent. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because they believe it is adequate to prevent this escalation by means of a custom, non-default configuration
Affected configurations
• bmc patrol agent (<= 11.3.01)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46556/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.securifera.com/blog/2018/12/17/bmc-patrol-agent-domain-user-to-domain-admin/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46556/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.securifera.com/blog/2018/12/17/bmc-patrol-agent-domain-user-to-domain-admin/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory