CVE-2018-20735
An issue was discovered in BMC PATROL Agent through 11.3.01. It was found that the PatrolCli application can allow for lateral movement and escalation of...
- Published
- Jan 17, 2019
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Mar 18, 2019
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 94.4%
- Model date
- Oct 13, 2026
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Summary
An issue was discovered in BMC PATROL Agent through 11.3.01. It was found that the PatrolCli application can allow for lateral movement and escalation of privilege inside a Windows Active Directory environment. It was found that by default the PatrolCli / PATROL Agent application only verifies if the password provided for the given username is correct; it does not verify the permissions of the user on the network. This means if you have PATROL Agent installed on a high value target (domain controller), you can use a low privileged domain user to authenticate with PatrolCli and then connect to the domain controller and run commands as SYSTEM. This means any user on a domain can escalate to domain admin through PATROL Agent. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because they believe it is adequate to prevent this escalation by means of a custom, non-default configuration
Sources
modules/exploits/multi/misc/bmc_patrol_cmd_exec.rb
Metasploit Framework modulesDeclared conditions
- platform: Linux,Unix,Windows($.exploit_multi/misc/bmc_patrol_cmd_exec.platform)
- verification: check_not_declared($.exploit_multi/misc/bmc_patrol_cmd_exec.check)
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