CVE-2019-17044
HIGHBMC Patrol Agent 9.0.10i - Local Privilege Escalation via SUID Binary Shared Library Injection
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://twitter.com/whira_wr
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0039
EPSS Percentile
31.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-276
Status
published
Products (1)
bmc/patrol_agent
9.0.10i
Published
Oct 14, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026