CVE-2018-11134

Published May 31, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 8.8 High EPSS 2.9% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-3176 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 8:01 AM
Reserved
May 15, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 31, 2018, 6:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:35 AM