CVE-2019-17044

low-risk
Published 2019-10-14

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.05% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Bmc

References (6)

Patch https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-p...
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalatio...
Third Party Advisory https://twitter.com/whira_wr
Patch https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-p...
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalatio...
Third Party Advisory https://twitter.com/whira_wr
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low-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal