Vulnerability Details CVE-2019-17044
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 13.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.2
References
- https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html
- https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation
- https://twitter.com/whira_wr
- https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html
- https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation
- https://twitter.com/whira_wr
Products affected by CVE-2019-17044
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cpe:2.3:a:bmc:patrol_agent:9.0.10i
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-