CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-17044
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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-276
Description
An issue was discovered in BMC Patrol Agent 9.0.10i. Weak execution permissions on the PatrolAgent SUID binary could allow an attacker with "patrol" privileges to elevate his/her privileges to the ones of the "root" user by specially crafting a shared library .so file that will be loaded during execution.
Affected configurations
• bmc patrol agent 9.0.10i
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/whira_wr Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/whira_wr Third Party Advisory