CVE-2019-17044

Summary

CVECVE-2019-17044
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-14 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-18 14:17:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-276

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bmc Patrol Agent 9.0.10i All All All
Application Bmc Patrol Agent 9.0.10i All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Notification of action required by PATROL Agent users to apply the security patch - Documentation for BMC PATROL Agent 11.3.02 - BMC Documentation CONFIRM docs.bmc.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
GitHub - 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. MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
whira (@whira_wr) | טוויטר MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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