VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-17044

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-10-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

Primary references