Quest KACE System Management Appliance 8.0.318 password recovery
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A vulnerability has been found in Quest KACE System Management Appliance 8.0.318 (Endpoint Management Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a password recovery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-640. The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
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.
The bug was discovered 05/31/2018. The weakness was presented 05/31/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at coresecurity.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-11134 since 05/15/2018. The attack can be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1552 for this issue.
The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 13151 (Quest KACE System Management Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities).
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
See 118451, 118452, 118454 and 118455 for similar entries.
Product
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Vendor
Name
Version
License
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.8VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.8
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VulDB Temp Score: 8.8
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Exploiting
Class: Password recoveryCWE: CWE-640
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
Timeline
05/15/2018 🔍05/31/2018 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: quest.comAdvisory: coresecurity.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2018-11134 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 06/01/2018 09:44Updated: 02/10/2020 15:19
Changes: 06/01/2018 09:44 (58), 02/10/2020 15:19 (1)
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