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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-3176 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T08:01:51.023Z

Reserved: 2018-05-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-11134

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-05-31T18:29:00.357

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:42:43.510

Link: CVE-2018-11134

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