CVE-2018-11134

Public Exploit

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.

Category

8.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.58%
Third-Party Advisory coresecurity.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilities third party advisory exploit technical description

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2018-11134?
CVE-2018-11134 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2018-11134?
To fix CVE-2018-11134, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2018-11134 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2018-11134 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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