CVE-2018-11134

HIGH

Quest Kace System Management Appliance - Password Reset Weakness

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0056
EPSS Percentile 68.2%
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