CVE-2018-5406 describes a critical Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) misconfiguration in Quest Kace K1000 Appliance versions prior to 9.0.270. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform sensitive actions, including adding new administrator accounts or altering appliance settings. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the exploit is network-based with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating a high potential for exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 9.0.270CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:quest:kace_systems_management_appliance_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.