CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-11134

8.8 HIGH Published 2018-05-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-05-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-640

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.

Affected configurations

• quest kace system management appliance 8.0.318

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password weakness

References