CVE-2025-32975 — Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) Improper Authentication Vulnerability
Overview
Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) contains an improper authentication vulnerability that could allow attackers to impersonate legitimate users without valid credentials.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-32975
- Vulnerability
- Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) Improper Authentication Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Quest
- Affected products
- Quest: KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- EPSS score
- 2.4% probability of exploitation in 30 days · 82th percentile
- Published
- 2026-04-20
Remediation guidance
CVE-2025-32975 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Quest the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.4% probability that CVE-2025-32975 will be exploited within the next 30 days (82th percentile of all CVEs) — useful for risk-based patch sequencing.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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