CVE-2018-11132: Quest KACE System Management Appliance

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In order to perform actions that require higher privileges, the Quest KACE System Management Appliance 8.0.318 relies on a message queue that runs daemonized with root privileges and only allows a set of commands to be executed. A command injection vulnerability exists within this message queue which allows low-privilege users to append arbitrary commands that will be run as root.

Affected products

• Quest KACE System Management Appliance: version 8.0.318 only

Published 2018-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.