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CVE-2025-32975: 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

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 71/100)

CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Apr 20, 2026). Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: May 4, 2026.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.4% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 84.7% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window. Until a fix is released, restrict access to the affected component and follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS

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.

CriticalCVSS 10.0 · v3.1KEVWeaponized No fix recorded

BDU:2025-10708

Published: Jun 24, 2025
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 2.4% · 84th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS: 40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
CISA KEV: 30 / 30 · Listed
EPSS: 1 / 30 · 2.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: active
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

Actively exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Apr 20, 2026. That signals real attacks, not theory.

Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: May 4, 2026.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
quest	kace systems management appliance	cpe:2.3:a:quest:kace_systems_management_appliance

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

quest kace systems management appliance13.0 and later · before 13.0.385
quest kace systems management appliance13.1 and later · before 13.1.81
quest kace systems management appliance13.2 and later · before 13.2.183
quest kace systems management appliance14.0 and later · before 14.0.341
quest kace systems management appliance14.1 and later · before 14.1.101

Same product

quest: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2021-32088An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SMA) 11.0.273.
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CVE-2021-32086An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SMA) 11.0.273.
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CVE-2021-32084An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SMA) 11.0.273.
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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-30285Aug 2, 2022 · In Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) through 12.0, a hash collision is possible during authentication.
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← EarlierCVE-2022-38220Feb 28, 2023 · An XSS vulnerability exists within Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) through 12.1 that may allow remote injection of arbitrary w
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Later →CVE-2025-26850Jul 4, 2025 · The agent in Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) before 14.0.97 and 14.1.x before 14.1.19 potentially allows privilege escalation
37Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedJun 24, 2025
CISA KEVApr 20, 2026+300 d
TodayNov 8, 2026+503 d

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/22

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