Vulnerability in Quest Kace System Management Appliance

CVE-2018-11134

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.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.030 (87.2th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2018-11134: held from 0.030 to 0.030.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.030 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-11134?
CVE-2018-11134 is a high-severity vulnerability in Quest Kace System Management Appliance, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-05-31.
How severe is CVE-2018-11134?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-11134 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.