CVE-2019-17044

Published October 14th, 2019

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CVSS v3

7.8

HIGH

CVSS v2

7.2

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

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.

blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation

Two Proof-Of-Concepts of SUID binary vulnerabilities on BMC Patrol allowing to elevate privileges from any linux user to root.

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