{"id":"CVE-2018-11134","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-11134","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T03:02:35.844Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2018-05-31T18:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:35:19.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-640"],"affected":["quest/kace system management appliance"],"epss":{"score":0.0297,"percentile":0.87171,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.11859,"percentile":0.95965},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.03016,"percentile":0.86843}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.97%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.11859,"from":0.03016,"percentile":0.95965},"summary":"EPSS moved from 3.0% to 11.9% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilities","tags":["Exploit","Technical Description","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/quest-kace-system-management-appliance-multiple-vulnerabilities","tags":["Exploit","Technical Description","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11134","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}