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CVE-2025-32975

10, critical Known exploited

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) Improper Authentication Vulnerability

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CVSS
10, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
2% higher than 84.3% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
24 Jun 2025a year ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 20 Apr 2026. US federal agencies had to remediate by 4 May 2026, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) 13.0.x before 13.0.385, 13.1.x before 13.1.81, 13.2.x before 13.2.183, 14.0.x before 14.0.341 (Patch 5), and 14.1.x before 14.1.101 (Patch 4) contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to impersonate legitimate users without valid credentials. The vulnerability exists in the SSO authentication handling mechanism and can lead to complete administrative takeover.

Details

Vendor
Quest
Product
Kace Systems Management Appliance
Weakness
CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
cve@mitre.org

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 5

Exploit code 2

Advisories 2

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.