CVE-2018-20735
It was found that the PatrolCli application can allow for lateral movement and escalation of privilege inside a Windows Active Directory environment.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 7.5%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
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
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 7.49% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 18 March 2019
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- Affected
- bmc/patrol agent
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 7.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46556/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.securifera.com/blog/2018/12/17/bmc-patrol-agent-domain-user-to-domain-admin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46556/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.securifera.com/blog/2018/12/17/bmc-patrol-agent-domain-user-to-domain-admin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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