VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-11134

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability2.97%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-05-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

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

Primary references