CVE-2019-17044

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-276

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalationThird Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/whira_wrThird Party Advisory
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalationThird Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/whira_wrThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 14, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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