CVSS 3.0
8.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-640
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- quest:kace_system_management_appliance