CVE-1999-1459

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

BMC PATROL Agent before 3.2.07 allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

BMC PATROL Agent before 3.2.07 allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 26 years ago

1998-11-02 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

BMC Software PATROL Agent 3.2

3.2

BMC Software PATROL Agent 3.2.3

3.2.3

References

534

Vendor Advisory

19981102 BMC PATROL File Creation Vulnerability

Patch, Vendor Advisory

bmc-patrol-file-create(1388)

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