Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-34257

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 31 May 2023

Published
31 May 2023
Modified
10 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0082 74.8th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-34257 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Bmc Patrol Agent. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 25.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in BMC Patrol through 23.1.00. The agent's configuration can be remotely modified (and, by default, authentication is not required). Some configuration fields related to SNMP (e.g., masterAgentName or masterAgentStartLine) result in code execution when the agent…

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is restarted. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is "These are not vulnerabilities for us as we have provided the option to implement the authentication."

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

bmc
patrol agent
≤ 23.1.00

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References