CVE-2019-17044

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-17044
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-10-14T17:15:09
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-18T14:17:17
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-276 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/276.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:bmc:patrol_agent:9.0.10i:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html Patch Vendor Advisory
https://twitter.com/whira_wr Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17044
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17044
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:01:18 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 04:20:27 2019-10-14T17:15Z 2019-10-14T17:15:09 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 04:20:27 2019-10-18T14:17:17 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 04:20:27 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated