Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 8.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-640
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:quest:kace_system_management_appliance:8.0.318:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "D9C0A86B-DFA8-4305-93A3-03E7BD52094E"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]