CWE Code: 640
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 9.0
CWE Name:  Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: SINGLE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-05-31
Last Modified Date: 2018-06-29