High severity · published Oct 14, 2019
CVE-2019-17044
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 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.
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 33% 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
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17044
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17044
Patch
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html
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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