CVE-2018-11134

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-640

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilitiesExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilitiesExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 31, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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