High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published May 31, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-11134
CVE-2018-11134
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.
Affected products
1- Range: =8.0.318
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilitiesnvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
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