CVE-1999-1460 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

BMC PATROL SNMP Agent before 3.2.07 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files as root by specifying the target file as the second argument to the snmpmagt program.

Published: 2001-09-12

Score: 7.2 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:bmc:patrol_agent::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:bmc:patrol_agent:3.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:bmc:patrol_agent:3.2.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:bmc:patrol_agent:3.2.5:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-1999-1441	BMC PATROL SNMP Agent before 3.2.07 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files as root by specifying the target file as the second argument to the snmpmagt program.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00397.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93198293132463&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=93372579004129&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/525

History

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Subscriptions

Bmc Patrol Agent

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:18:07.281Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1460

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-07-13T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-1999-1460

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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