CVE-2018-5406
The Quest Kace K1000 Appliance, versions prior to 9.0.270, allows a remote attacker to exploit the misconfigured Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) mechanism. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform sensitive actions such as adding a new administrator account or changing the appliance?s settings. A malicious internal user could also gain administrator privileges of this appliance and use it to visit a malicious link that exploits this vulnerability. This could cause the application to perform sensitive actions such as adding a new administrator account or changing the appliance?s settings. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could add an administrator-level account or change the appliance's settings.
EPSS 15.73% · 94.9th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Quest Kace | K1000 Appliance | 9.0.270 |
| quest | kace_systems_management_appliance_firmware | 0 |
Timeline
- Jun 3, 2019 PoC Published
- Jun 3, 2019 PoC Published
- Jun 3, 2019 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- VU#877837 third-party-advisory
- https://support.quest.com/kb/288310/cert-coordination-center-report-update url
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153150/Dell-KACE-System-Management-Appliance-SMA-XSS-SQL-Injection.html url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5406 advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877837 url