CVE-2018-5406

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-5406
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-06-03 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-18 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Quest Kace Systems Management Appliance - All All All
Hardware Quest Kace Systems Management Appliance - All All All
Operating System Quest Kace Systems Management Appliance Firmware All All All All
Operating System Quest Kace Systems Management Appliance Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CERT Coordination Center report update (288310) CONFIRM support.quest.com Vendor Advisory
Dell KACE System Management Appliance (SMA) XSS / SQL Injection ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
VU#877837 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Quest Kace System Management Appliance CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Thanks to Kapil Khot for reporting this vulnerability.

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