How severe is CVE-2025-32975?

CVE-2025-32975 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 10 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2025-32975: Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) Improper Authentication Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2026-04-20

Remediation due

2026-05-04

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

CISA notes
https://support.quest.com/kb/4379499/quest-response-to-kace-sma-vulnerabilities-cve-2025-32975-cve-2025-32976-cve-2025-32977-cve-2025-32978 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32975

Description

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA10 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 15, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2025-32975 to the KEV catalog 300 days after its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2026 so far is 14 days.
It is one of 2 Quest entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and the only one added in 2026.
Its current EPSS score (2.5%) is higher than that of 10% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

4 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2025-06-24

Last updated

2026-04-21

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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