CVE-2025-32975: Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) Improper Authentication Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) contains an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow attackers to impersonate legitimate users without valid credentials.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- An improper authentication vulnerability could allow attackers to impersonate legitimate users without valid credentials.
- Who is affected
- Users of Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA).
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to the critical severity and confirmed exploitation.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of KACE SMA.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32975
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2025-32975Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 82% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-32975 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Quest KACE Systems
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- criticalexploitedCVE-2018-11138: Quest KACE System Management Appliance Remote Command Execution Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-03-25
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