CVE-2018-5406
The Quest Kace K1000 Appliance, versions prior to 9.0.270, allows a remote attacker to exploit the misconfigured Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) mechanism.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.2%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
The Quest Kace K1000 Appliance, versions prior to 9.0.270, allows a remote attacker to exploit the misconfigured Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) mechanism. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform sensitive actions such as adding a new administrator account or changing the appliance’s settings. A malicious internal user could also gain administrator privileges of this appliance and use it to visit a malicious link that exploits this vulnerability. This could cause the application to perform sensitive actions such as adding a new administrator account or changing the appliance’s settings. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could add an administrator-level account or change the appliance's settings.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 12.21% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 3 June 2019
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-284
- Affected
- quest/kace systems management appliance firmware
- Source
- cret@cert.org
EPSS 12.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. 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
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153150/Dell-KACE-System-Management-Appliance-SMA-XSS-SQL-Injection.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- 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
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153150/Dell-KACE-System-Management-Appliance-SMA-XSS-SQL-Injection.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- 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.