critical Known exploitedREV. 01
CVE-2025-32975Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance — sign-on bypass
The single sign-on handling in Quest's systems management appliance (KACE SMA) lets an attacker impersonate a legitimate user without any valid credentials, and from there take the appliance over completely.
Read the risk
THE VITAL STATS- CVSS score
- 10.0/ 10 CVSS v3.1
- EPSS probability
- 2% Likelihood of exploitation
- Attack complexity
- Low Conditions needed to exploit
- Known exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- CVE published
- 2025-06-24
- Added to KEV
- 2026-04-20
- Exploit published
- Not recorded
- Confidence
- high
- Kill chain
- initial access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078
- Severity
- critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attacker needsNetwork access to the appliance's sign-on endpoint; no credentials needed.
Fixed inQuest KACE SMA 13.0.385, Quest KACE SMA 13.1.81, Quest KACE SMA 13.2.183, Quest KACE SMA 14.0.341 (Patch 5), Quest KACE SMA 14.1.101 (Patch 4)
Behind the card
5 REFERENCES- 01CVE recordNVD recordnvd.nist.gov
- 02CISACISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogcisa.gov
- 03Vendor advisorysupport.quest.comsupport.quest.com
- 04Writeupseclists.orgseclists.org
- 05Writeupseralys.comseralys.com
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +
Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.
| Fields | Source | Retrieved | Extractor | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_at | nvd.nist.gov | 2026-09-24 | scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1 | high |
| exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_added | cisa.gov | 2026-09-24 | scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1 | high |
| epss | api.first.org | 2026-09-24 | scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1 | high |
| title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisites | nvd.nist.gov | 2026-09-24 | claude-code | high |
Printing history
THE RECORD- r1Initial base card
First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.