CVE-2018-11134: Quest KACE System Management Appliance

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Quest KACE System Management Appliance: version 8.0.318 only

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