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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.

Published

2019-10-14T17:15:09.660

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:31:35.377

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-276

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	bmc	patrol_agent	9.0.10i	Yes
Operating System	linux	linux_kernel	-	No

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 ([email protected])
https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://twitter.com/whira_wr Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
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 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://twitter.com/whira_wr Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)