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High severity · published Oct 14, 2019
CVE-2019-17043
An issue was discovered in BMC Patrol Agent 9.0.10i
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in BMC Patrol Agent 9.0.10i. Weak execution permissions on the best1collect.exe SUID binary could allow an attacker to elevate his/her privileges to the ones of the "patrol" user by specially crafting a shared library .so file that will be loaded during execution.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PA
Patrol Agent · Bmc
9.0.10i · source: NVD
Affected product
PA
Patrol Agent
Bmc
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17043
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17043
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation
Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/whira_wr
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