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.

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.

EPSS: 0.119 (95.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Quest Kace_system_management_appliance — versions 8.0.318
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-640 — Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Public proof-of-concept exploits

lean0x2F/lean0x2f.github.io

References

cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

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.