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Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) Improper Authentication Vulnerability

CVE-2025-32975 · Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) · Published 2025-06-24

How bad would it be?

10.0 out of 10

CVSS rates it critical: about as damaging as flaws get.

How likely is it to be used?

2.5%

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).

Is it already being used?

Yes

CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 179 days ago (2026-05-04).

What CISA says to do

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

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) contains an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow attackers to impersonate legitimate users without valid credentials.

What the flaw is

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.

From the NVD.

Fixes and advisories

support.quest.comVendor Advisory

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Authentication weaknesses

The application does not reliably check that someone is who they claim to be.

CWE-287 · CISA KEV; NVD record: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

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