Quest Kace K1000 Systems Management Appliance up to 6.3 SP2 service/krashrpt.php kuid injection

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Quest Kace K1000 Systems Management Appliance up to 6.3 SP2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file service/krashrpt.php. Such manipulation of the argument kuid as part of Shell Metacharacter leads to injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-20504. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Quest Kace K1000 Systems Management Appliance up to 6.3 SP2 (Endpoint Management Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file service/krashrpt.php. The manipulation of the argument kuid as part of a Shell Metacharacter leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

service/krashrpt.php in Quest KACE K1000 Systems Management Appliance before 6.4 SP3 (6.4.120822) allows a remote attacker to execute code via shell metacharacters in the kuid parameter.

The weakness was presented 03/09/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-20504 since 03/09/2020. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1055 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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Applying the patch 6.4 SP3 is able to eliminate this problem.

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• Endpoint Management Software

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• Quest

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• Kace K1000 Systems Management Appliance

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• 6.3 SP2

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.quest.com/

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