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CVE-2025-32975

CISA KEV

CVSS v3.1 10 (CRITICAL) · EPSS 0.1% (higher than 39.6% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2025-06-24

As of 2025-11-03, CVE-2025-32975 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability, CVSS v3.1 10, EPSS 0.1% (39.6th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-04-20), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2026-05-04. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 2 tracked threat campaigns to CVE-2025-32975, most recently “CVE-2025-32975: Quest KACE SMA SSO Authentication Bypass Enables Admin Takeover — Actively Exploited”.

Last updated: 2025-11-03

What is CVE-2025-32975?

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.

The record classifies CVE-2025-32975 under weakness class CWE-287. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. The identifier was first published 445 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score: 10 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST): 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39.6% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Listed since 2026-04-20, federal remediation deadline 2026-05-04
Threadlinqs priority: 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published: 2025-06-24, last modified 2025-11-03

Is CVE-2025-32975 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2025-32975 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-04-20, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2026-05-04 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 30 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

No affected-product or package list has been recorded for CVE-2025-32975 in the tracked sources. The vendor advisory and the references below are the authoritative statement of what is affected.

How to fix CVE-2025-32975

Because CVE-2025-32975 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2026-05-04. No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-32975 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat any affected deployment as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-32975

2 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2025-32975, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

CVE-2025-32975: Quest KACE SMA SSO Authentication Bypass Enables Admin Takeover — Actively Exploited — CRITICAL · 2026-03-23
Quest KACE SMA Critical Authentication Bypass Actively Exploited in Education Sector (CVE-2025-32975) — CRITICAL · 2026-03-21

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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