BMC Patrol Agent up to 11.3.01 Encryption Key cryptographic issue

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in BMC Patrol Agent up to 11.3.01. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Encryption Key. Such manipulation leads to cryptographic issue. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2019-8352. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in BMC Patrol Agent up to 11.3.01. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Encryption Key. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-310. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

By default, BMC PATROL Agent through 11.3.01 uses a static encryption key for encrypting/decrypting user credentials sent over the network to managed PATROL Agent services. If an attacker were able to capture this network traffic, they could decrypt these credentials and use them to execute code or escalate privileges on the network.

The bug was discovered 05/15/2019. The weakness was published 05/20/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-8352 since 02/15/2019. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1600 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (46969). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Vendor

Name

Patrol Agent

Version

11.3.01

License

commercial

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

VulDB Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cryptographic issue
CWE: CWE-310
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

02/15/2019 🔍
05/15/2019 +89 days 🔍
05/20/2019 +5 days 🔍
05/21/2019 +1 days 🔍
11/08/2025 +2363 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 153189
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2019-8352 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-8352
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-135290
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 05/21/2019 07:41
Updated: 11/08/2025 23:51
Changes: 05/21/2019 07:41 (53), 06/14/2020 09:02 (1), 09/23/2023 10:54 (3), 09/23/2023 11:00 (1), 11/08/2025 23:51 (25)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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