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CVE-2018-11134

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: 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 products

• Quest Kace System Management Appliance: 8.0.318

References

• https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilities
• https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilities

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