# CVE-2018-11134: In order to perform actions that requires higher privileges, the Quest KACE System Management Appliance 8.0.318 relies on a message queue ma

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-05-31 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilities

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