CVE-2018-5404
The Quest Kace K1000 Appliance, versions prior to 9.0.270, allows an authenticated, remote attacker with least privileges ('User Console Only' role) to potentially exploit multiple Blind SQL Injection vulnerabilities to retrieve sensitive information…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 3.8%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
The Quest Kace K1000 Appliance, versions prior to 9.0.270, allows an authenticated, remote attacker with least privileges ('User Console Only' role) to potentially exploit multiple Blind SQL Injection vulnerabilities to retrieve sensitive information from the database or copy the entire database. An authenticated remote attacker could leverage Blind SQL injections to obtain sensitive data.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.77% probability · 90th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 3 June 2019
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-89
- Affected
- quest/kace systems management appliance firmware
- Source
- cret@cert.org
EPSS 3.8% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://support.quest.com/kb/288310/cert-coordination-center-report-updateVendor Advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877837/Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://support.quest.com/kb/288310/cert-coordination-center-report-updateVendor Advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877837/Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.