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CVE-2018-5406

CVE-2018-5406 — The Quest Kace K1000 Appliance misconfigures the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) mechanism.

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.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, certcc

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Exploit code

public exploit, none observed

EPSS

12%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

quest kace

k1000_appliance

CVSS base

Unscored

no source published a base score

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

quest kace

Products (1)

k1000 appliance

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-284

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1027.009Obfuscated Files or Information: Embedded Payloads
  • T1546.004Event Triggered Execution: .bash_profile and .bashrc
  • T1546.016Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages

Public exploit

Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.

Indexed by

exploit db

References

3 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.