# CVE-2018-20735: An issue was discovered in BMC PATROL Agent through 11.3.01.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module
- Published: 2019-01-17 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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

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## Related

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## References

- https://www.securifera.com/blog/2018/12/17/bmc-patrol-agent-domain-user-to-domain-admin/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46556/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46556
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/misc/bmc_patrol_cmd_exec.rb

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