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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-32975

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) Improper Authentication Vulnerability

Published Jun 24, 2025 · catalog updated Jun 17, 2026 · Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)

Patch now

CVE-2025-32975 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due May 4, 2026. Confirm Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Critical10.0
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
2.49%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
cpe quest/kace systems management appliance · vendor Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)

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.

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  • cpe quest/kace systems management applianceversion unspecified
  • vendor Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)version unspecified

How to fix CVE-2025-32975

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2025-32975 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due May 4, 2026. Confirm Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-287: Improper Authentication. EPSS 2.49%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

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No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Jun 24, 2025 · Catalog

    Detected

    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

  2. Apr 20, 2026 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

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

  3. May 4, 2026 · CISA KEV

    Remediation due

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

  4. Jun 17, 2026 · Catalog

    Updated

    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

Sources

  • CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2025-32975

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

    cisa.gov
  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-32975

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-32975

    30-day exploitation probability 2.5%

    first.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-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 (Patch 5), and 14.1.x before 14.1.101 (Patch 4) contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to impersonate legitim

    nvd.nist.gov
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2025-32975

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

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.