CVE-2018-11134
HIGHQuest KACE System Management Appliance 8.0.318 - Privilege Escalation via Password Change Command
Title source: llmDescription
In order to perform actions that requires higher privileges, the Quest KACE System Management Appliance 8.0.318 relies on a message queue managed that runs with root privileges and only allows a set of commands. One of the available commands allows changing any user's password (including root). A low-privilege user could abuse this feature by changing the password of the 'kace_support' account, which comes disabled by default but has full sudo privileges.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilities
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0302
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-640
Status
published
Products (1)
quest/kace_system_management_appliance
8.0.318
Published
May 31, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026