CVE-2008-5982: Bmc Patrol Agent

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in BMC PATROL Agent before 3.7.30 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an invalid version number to TCP port 3181, which are not properly handled when writing a log message.

Affected products

• Bmc Patrol Agent: up to and including 3.7; version 3.2 only; version 3.2.3 only; version 3.2.5 only; version 3.2.7 only; version 3.3.00 only; …

Published 2009-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.