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CVE-2019-17044

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-10-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

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.

Affected products

• BMC Patrol Agent: 9.0.10i

References

• https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html
• https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation
• https://twitter.com/whira_wr
• https://docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.html
• https://github.com/blogresponder/BMC-Patrol-Agent-local-root-privilege-escalation
• https://twitter.com/whira_wr

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