Threats / Quest / CVE-2025-32975
CVE-2025-32975
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) vulnerability
Quest KACE SMA contains an improper authentication vulnerability (CWE-287) allowing attackers to impersonate legitimate users without valid credentials. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
An authentication bypass in Quest KACE SMA enables unauthorized access through credential impersonation. Active exploitation and moderate EPSS score indicate elevated risk to organizations relying on this management appliance for infrastructure control.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
4 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-04-20).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.02417 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Quest, KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA). Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-287 Improper Authentication — weakness family: Authentication.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I bypass authentication controls to gain access to the KACE SMA management interface without valid credentials.
Business
Attackers obtain unauthorized administrative access to systems management infrastructure, enabling lateral movement and control over managed endpoints.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I impersonate legitimate administrators to execute commands and deploy configurations across managed systems.
Business
Malicious actors manipulate system configurations, deploy malware, or disable security controls across the entire managed infrastructure.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I extract sensitive data and credentials stored within the compromised appliance.
Business
Exposure of administrative credentials and system intelligence compromises the security posture of dependent infrastructure and increases breach scope.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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