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. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 491 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)
- 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84.1% 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 2026-04-21
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. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2025-32975 is publicly available. 1 public proof-of-concept repository is tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 49 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- Quest: Kace Systems Management Appliance
How to fix CVE-2025-32975
Vendor advisory: https://support.quest.com/kb/4379499/quest-response-to-kace-sma-vulnerabilities-cve-2025-32975-cve-2025-32976-cve-2025-32977-cve-2025-32978. 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. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
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.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.