CVE-1999-1459: Bmc Patrol Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Bmc Patrol Agent: version 3.2 only; version 3.2.3 only

Published 1998-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.