CVE-2019-17044
highpriority · track · 31OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.004 · 33 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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affected products (2)
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references (10)
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- https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.htmlcnnvd
- https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalationcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17044cnnvd
- https://twitter.com/whira_wrcnnvd
- https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalationenisa_euvd
- https://twitter.com/whira_wrenisa_euvd
- https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.htmlPatchVendor Advisorynvd
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