CVE-2025-32977
As of 2025-11-03, CVE-2025-32977 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability, CVSS v3.1 9.6, EPSS 0.0% (27.6th percentile). Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2025-32977, most recently “Quest KACE SMA Critical Authentication Bypass Actively Exploited in Education Sector (CVE-2025-32975)”.
Last updated: 2025-11-03
What is CVE-2025-32977?
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) allows unauthenticated users to upload backup files to the system. While signature validation is implemented, weaknesses in the validation process can be exploited to upload malicious backup content that could compromise system integrity.
The record classifies CVE-2025-32977 under weakness class CWE-347. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs a user to take an action first, 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
- 9.6 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.6% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 5.9/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2025-06-24, last modified 2025-11-03
Is CVE-2025-32977 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 12 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
No affected-product or package list has been recorded for CVE-2025-32977 in the tracked sources. The vendor advisory and the references below are the authoritative statement of what is affected.
How to fix CVE-2025-32977
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-32977 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-2025-32977
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-32977, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
- 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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