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CVE-2018-5406

8.8 highEPSS 12%

High (8.8) in quest kace systems management appliance firmware. EPSS 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Quest Kace K1000 Appliance, versions prior to 9.0.270, allows a remote attacker to exploit the misconfigured Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) mechanism. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform sensitive actions such as adding a new administrator account or changing the appliance’s settings. A malicious internal user could also gain administrator privileges of this appliance and use it to visit a malicious link that exploits this vulnerability. This could cause the application to perform sensitive actions such as adding a new administrator account or changing the appliance’s settings. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could add an administrator-level account or change the appliance's settings.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-284
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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