High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 14, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-17044
CVE-2019-17044
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.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:bmc:patrol_agent:9.0.10i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:bmc:patrol_agent:9.0.10i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: = 9.0.10i
- BMC/Patrol Agentdescription
Patches
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References
2- docs.bmc.com/docs/PATROLAgent/11302/notification-of-action-required-by-patrol-agent-users-to-apply-the-security-patch-898411558.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- twitter.com/whira_wrnvdThird Party Advisory
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