THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-11132
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-11132

Kace System Management Appliance vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
18.3%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
In order to perform actions that require higher privileges, the Quest KACE System Management Appliance 8.0.318 relies on a message queue that runs daemonized with root privileges and only allows a set of commands to be executed. A command injection vulnerability exists within this message queue which allows low-privilege users to append arbitrary commands that will be run as root.
Affected vendor
Quest
Affected product
Kace System Management Appliance
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2018-05-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 18.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-11132

  • Confirm whether Quest Kace System Management Appliance is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-11132.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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